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21 What to do first: migrate or extend? Use cases How Microsoft Azure helps How organizations benefit Assure business continuity and data protection. Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery increase compliance, reduce complexity, and lower costs. They replicate on-premises virtual machines to Azure and orchestrate failover and failback. Reduce disaster recovery infrastructure by paying for only the compute, storage, and network needed in Azure with software as a service–no need to purchase hardware. Onboard faster, because the capability is built into Azure. Manage a diverse hybrid cloud environment. System Center simplifies deployment, configuration, management, and monitoring of your infrastructure and virtualized datacenter. Use Azure monitoring and analytics to collect, correlate, and search your systems and application data across Azure and on-premises servers. Gain visibility into the health, performance, and utilization of your applications, workloads, and infrastructure. Proactively find and fix issues before they impact your users. Quickly establish dev and test environments. Use Azure Virtual Machines to simplify and speed the process of running a dev-test environment. Spin up as many virtual machines as you need, network them, and allocate to your developers. Give your developers freedom and speed to develop in Azure, then deploy where needed. Choose Linux or Unix. Use your own virtual machine image or download a certified pre-configured image. Use your preferred coding language natively. Extend on-premises file servers to the cloud. With Azure File Sync, you can deliver consistent file share performance for users whether they work locally or remotely. Leverage Azure as centralized storage for less frequently used file server data while turning your local Windows server into a high-performance cache for frequently used file data. Unite identity and access management across on-premises directory and Azure. Use Azure Active Directory to manage users and secure access to on-premises and cloud information. Extend Active Directory and any other on-premises directory to Azure AD. Enable single sign-on to simplify access to thousands of cloud applications across multiple devices. Protect sensitive data and apps with multi-factor authentication. Archive on-premises data to Azure. Azure Blob storage stores from hundreds to billions of objects in hot, cool, or archive tiers, depending on how often data access is needed. Use StorSimple to automatically archive inactive primary data from on-premises to the cloud for effortless capacity expansion. Cloud snapshots provide off-site data protection. With cloud storage, no secondary datacenter is needed. Reduce capacity purchases and infrastructure maintenance.