GMA Announces SharePoint Azure Accelerator

GMA Consulting, the London-based IT consultancy specialising in the design, development and implementation of solutions using Microsoft technologies, is pleased to announce the release of its accelerator capability for the deployment of SharePoint 2010 on the Windows Azure cloud platform.London 5 July 2011

Business managers will value the substantial cost saving available through the use of Azure hosting. “The monthly cost of hosting a simple instance of SharePoint on Azure, assuming a single small compute instance with 50gb of storage, is roughly GBP 60-70 per month. This figure is probably 10-20% of the cost of hosting with a traditional hosting company” said Grey.

Grey finished by saying “Cloud computing is a major trend in IT and we are delighted that we are at the cutting edge of exploiting this new innovation. We are confident that this ‘sweet spot’ of SharePoint and Azure will deliver to our clients the ability to rapidly roll out wide-scale collaboration functionality whilst minimising their IT infrastructure costs.”

The Windows Azure platform is commercially available in 41 countries and enables developers to build, host and scale applications in Microsoft data centres located around the world. It includes Windows Azure, which offers developers an Internet-scale hosting environment with a runtime execution environment for managed code, and SQL Azure, which is a highly available and scalable cloud database service built on SQL Server technologies. Developers can use existing skills with Visual Studio, .NET, Java, PHP and Ruby to quickly build solutions, with no need to buy servers or set up a dedicated infrastructure, and with automated service management to help protect against hardware failure and downtime associated with platform maintenance.

The Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise

SharePoint is the Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise and the Web. SharePoint enables organisations to connect and empower people through an integrated set of rich features. It facilitates business collaboration in the broadest sense and helps collegues, partners, and clients to work at the same time in new and effective ways. SharePoint's integrated suite of capabilities includes:

For developers, SharePoint provides a robust development platform to rapidly build solutions and respond to business needs. Developers can use familiar tools like Microsoft Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer.

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