Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation meet your business challenges. It is the freedom to build, manage and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your favorite tools and frameworks. Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Windows Azure, is Microsoft’s public cloud computing platform. It provides a range of cloud services, including those for compute, analytics, storage and networking. Users can pick and choose from these services to develop and scale new applications, or run existing applications, in the public cloud. Allscripts is a leading healthcare software manufacturer, serving physician practices, hospitals, health plans, and Big Pharma. To transform its applications frequently and host them securely and reliably, Allscripts has started to use Microsoft Azure. In just three weeks, the company lifted and shifted dozens of acquired applications running on 1,000 virtual machines to Azure. Allscripts also develops software in Azure and realizes dramatic time-to-market gains and savings by using the Azure platform as a service offering. By moving our acquired applications to Azure, we were able to get them up, running, and adding value to the business in three weeks versus the three months needed to requisition servers and storage. — Peter Tomlinson: Director of IS, Technology Operations Harmonize development and hosting Thousands of hospitals, health systems, community practices, and pharmaceutical companies rely on Allscripts software to deliver smarter, more effective patient care. The Chicago, Illinois–based company makes a wide range of software applications used by a spectrum of healthcare players to build open, connected communities of health. Pharmaceutical companies use Allscripts software to run clinical trials more efficiently. Hospitals and...
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