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Navigate the Cloud on Azure

Take advantage of a unified cloud platform that delivers integrated tools and technologies to support your IT landscape, from anywhere. With best-in-class cloud managed services, our customers get the most from their Microsoft investment with trusted expertise that delivers optimization, insights, and strategic value from a multitude of Azure solutions.
Connection is an Azure Expert MSP, which uniquely qualifies us to architect, deploy, and manage your digital estate. We help every step of the way and work to make your Microsoft journey as seamless as possible.
Connection is an Azure Expert MSP

Microsoft Empowers You to Do More With Less

Get the most value from your Microsoft investments with less cost, less disruption, and less risk. From infrastructure and data to business applications and hybrid work, Microsoft and Connection are strategically aligned to deliver unique, differentiated value to futureproof your business.
Migrate and Save
Migrate and Save
Save on infrastructure and energy costs, improve operational efficiency, and futureproof your operations when you migrate to Azure.
Optimize Cloud Spending
Optimize Cloud Spending
Realize savings and optimize existing cloud investments by ensuring that your workloads are efficient and well architected.
Reinvest to Accelerate Growth
Reinvest to Accelerate Growth
Invest savings to ensure business continuity, modernize apps, and create resilient, innovative solutions with best-in-class Azure security across cloud and hybrid environments.

Connection Achieves Technical Proficiency Across Seven Microsoft Solution Areas

Earning seven designations, Connection has been recognized as a Microsoft Solutions Partner, demonstrating our proven capabilities and technical expertise to deliver and support Microsoft services and solutions across your organization.
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Connection has earned Azure Expert MSP status, uniquely qualifying us as a trusted Microsoft partner for architecting, deploying, optimizing, and managing your digital estate. We offer highly automated services and solutions to enable and support Azure environments.

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Azure Reserved Instances Now Available through Connection CSP Program

Save up to 72% off Azure costs when purchasing Azure Reserved Instances (Azure RI). Choose a 1- or 3-year upfront payment.

Buy Azure services through Connection's Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program and receive:
  • Access to Azure Certified Solutions Specialists
  • 24/7 support managed by Connection
  • Planning and deployment services for a nominal fee
To learn more about buying Azure through Connection CSP, contact your Account Team today at 1.800.800.0019

Connection CSP Program

Migrate and Modernize with Azure

Microsoft Azure offers the best destination for Windows Server and SQL Server workloads, delivering unique capabilities, built-in AI, and reduced cost, time, and complexity. With industry-leading, multi-layered security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel, in tandem with Windows Server and SQL Server built-in features, you can secure your workloads from cloud to the edge—at your own pace.

Check out this infographic to understand how you can maximize your Windows Server value with Connection, a trusted Microsoft Solutions Partner.
Migrate and Modernize with Azure
Harness the Power of VMware on Azure

Harness the Power of VMware on Azure

Currently running VMware workloads in a hybrid capacity? Azure VMware Solution allows businesses, like yours, to easily migrate and manage your VMware workloads natively on Azure's cloud infrastructure. By leveraging your existing investments in VMware tools and expertise, our Azure Expert team will help accelerate your digital transformation, streamline operations, and gain the agility required to meet your evolving business needs, within a secure and reliable cloud environment.

Azure Migrate Assessment

Migration strategy and planning needs to focus on aligning business outcomes, priorities, and technical constraints to ensure a successful migration to Microsoft Azure. Poor planning can lead to poor outcomes and improper implementation. With our Azure Migration Assessment, we can help you evaluate your existing on-premises environment and consider which infrastructure, applications, and data to migrate first—so you’re ready to migrate with confidence.

Azure Migrate Assessment
Microsoft Azure Solutions to Higher Education Challenges

Microsoft Azure Solutions to Higher Education Challenges

Like nearly every other industry, higher education has been forced to rapidly adopt new technologies to meet today’s challenges. Microsoft Azure has the tools your institution can use to overcome these hurdles and create more engaging student experiences, lower costs, increase security—and more. In this guide, we’ll show you how Connection can guide you through the world of Azure to create cloud solutions that meet your unique needs.

The Best Cloud Solution for Your Business

Azure Migration Services

Connection isn’t going to assume the cloud will immediately answer all your needs. We also don’t just do a quick lift and shift because too much can go wrong.

Instead, Connection works to understand your business goals and cloud readiness so we can recommend the best solution for you. Connection doesn’t play favorites with cloud computing services, so we will find the right fit for your organization.
Why Cloud Managed Services?

Azure Cloud Managed Services

As you transition your workloads to the cloud, you’ll have to navigate several concerns, such as security, ensuring compliance, and managing multi-cloud environments. You might find your in-house IT team stretched too thin to manage all of these aspects, especially as you try to optimize your budget to account for any unplanned cloud spend. That’s where Connection, a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider, comes in. With our expertise, we can fill any technology and management gaps, as well as provide flexible payment models, so you can focus on what really matters—supporting your users and growing your organization.

The right cloud managed service provider can address these concerns—and others—in order to help you build an effective cloud infrastructure management strategy.

Azure Optimization Services

Azure Optimization Services

There are many ways to begin optimizing your current Azure environment, including reviewing your Azure architecture against Microsoft reference architectures and uncovering potential opportunities for improvement by leveraging Platform as a Service (PaaS), automation, and/or other Azure-native tools available within the platform.

Connection offers Azure Optimization Services to help you better understand these findings, and our experts can provide recommendations to improve your existing Azure environment.

Azure Managed Services

Azure Managed Services

As a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP), our specialists can help IT and business leaders optimize and manage a custom Azure architecture that fits your business needs. With various opportunities to help improve the performance of your existing cloud ecosystem, our Azure MSP team is ready to help you reach your full potential by implementing best practices for sustainable growth across your cloud infrastructure.

Microsoft Azure

Turn your ideas into solutions faster with Microsoft Azure. With Azure, your organization has the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your preferred tools and frameworks.
If you are just starting out with Microsoft cloud solutions, or already have a dedicated plan in place, our strategic partners and highly skilled specialized teams can help you make the most of your Microsoft cloud investments.
Microsoft Azure Partner Symantec
Keep Your Azure Accounts Secure with Symantec
Symantec Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) allows organizations to secure their critical workloads wherever they are—public clouds, private clouds, and physical on-premises data centers—all from a single centralized console.
Microsoft Azure Partner Barracuda
Protect Your Assets in the Microsoft Cloud with Barracuda Networks
Barracuda’s Cloud Security Guardian for Microsoft Azure is an agentless SaaS service that makes it simple and easy to stay secure, while building applications in and moving workloads to public-cloud infrastructures.
Microsoft Azure Partner Veeam
Veeam for the Microsoft Cloud
Microsoft and Veeam go beyond typical backup and recovery scenarios. Their strong partnership ensures data is always available and protected. Veeam extends on-premises data protection for virtual and physical workloads to the cloud with tight integration into Microsoft Azure, Azure Stack, and Microsoft 365. Together, their joint solutions help you manage data protection from multiple sources with multiple potential backup targets.

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