Optimize workloads in Microsoft Azure infrastructures

June 4, 2024

The cloud has become a key element in the digital transformation of companies seeking to take advantage of the flexibility, scalability, and cost savings it offers. However, managing resources in the cloud also involves a number of challenges and opportunities that are worth knowing and taking advantage of.

One of these is the management of workloads in the cloud, a fundamental point for guaranteeing the performance, security, and efficiency of the services offered by companies.

As we saw in a previous article, a workload is the set of applications, data, configurations and resources running in the cloud to meet a specific objective. Optimizing workloads involves analyzing and improving the technical, operational and financial aspects that affect their operation.

Managed Services and Optimization in Microsoft Azure

At Telefónica Tech we offer Managed Services on the Azure cloud, to which we can include the Workload Optimization Service. These are solutions that allow our customers to delegate the management of their Cloud resources, in the cloud, to a team of experts who are responsible for monitoring, managing, and optimizing their workloads in Azure. This way, our customers can focus on their business and get the most out of their cloud investment.

We identify and remediate various recommendations in the customer's infrastructure, always aligned with the five pillars of the Azure Well-Architected Framework, which defines a set of best practices to design, implement and operate cloud solutions in an efficient, secure and scalable way based on:

Operational excellence to maximize efficiency and improve service quality.
Security by implementing best practices and solutions to protect data and systems.
Reliability by applying appropriate technologies and configurations to ensure high availability and continuity of applications, and services in Azure.
Performance by optimizing the performance of workloads in Azure to ensure applications and services run efficiently, and quickly.
Cost reduction through recommendations to optimize the use of resources in Azure without compromising quality, and performance.

We also apply the cultural practice and discipline of financial management provided by FinOps (Financial Operations), an approach that combines financial and operations practices to optimize spending in the cloud.

Benefits of optimizing workloads in Azure

Optimizing workloads in Microsoft Azure with Telefónica Tech brings several benefits that help get the most out of your investment in the Azure cloud, including:

Reducing costs by aligning consumption with actual demand and avoiding wasted resources.
- According to a Gartner study, 81% of companies consider cloud spending as a major challenge.
Adoption of cloud security best practices, protecting data and systems against potential threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks.
- We take care of configuring and updating the most appropriate security measures for each scenario.
Improvements in the performance of Cloud systems, ensuring that applications and services work optimally and without interruptions, all with the strictly necessary resources.
- We proactively monitor the status and activity of resources and manage incidents that may arise.
Increased fault tolerance of workloads in the cloud, ensuring business continuity in the face of possible contingencies.
- We design and implement high availability, scalability and disaster recovery solutions, identifying inefficiencies in the infrastructure.

✅ Our team of Telefónica Tech experts supports you throughout the entire process of adoption and implementation of improvements, ensuring benefits, success, and customer satisfaction.

Telefónica Tech Optimization Service tools and features in Microsoft Azure

Our Workload Optimization Service in Microsoft Azure includes several additional tools and features that make it easier for you to manage and optimize resources in the cloud. Among others:

Cloud Portal dashboard with KPIs and graphs that provide detailed information on identified recommendations and their implementation.
Implementation of remediations and notifications of recommendations that you can evaluate to request their implementation according to your specific needs.
Optimization mode changes so that our customers can adjust the optimization mode (Essential or Extended) on each account autonomously and transparently.
Detailed reporting and dialogue on costs, benefits, and status of recommendations.
Semi-annual meetings and deliverables of improvements that allow us to maintain a close dialogue with the customer, enabling us to transmit our recommendations based on continuous analysis of the infrastructure by our experts.

✅ Our managed services for Microsoft Azure also allow our customers to access and control the consumption of cloud resources through a web portal and a mobile app. It is possible through these channels to view billing details, receive alerts and tips to reduce spending, and activate or deactivate services according to their changing needs.

Conclusion

The new Optimization Service on Azure is another example of Telefónica Tech's commitment to innovation and excellence in customer service.

Customers can reduce their costs, improve their security and increase their productivity, taking full advantage of the benefits of Microsoft's public cloud and the value of their investment in Cloud.

Telefónica Tech is thus positioned as a strategic partner to accompany companies in their digital transformation, offering comprehensive and customized solutions that are adapted to their needs.