Microsoft Azure, a cloud hosting solution, allows organizations to deploy infrastructure and applications in a cost-effective, pay-on-use manner. The flexibility of Microsoft Azure gives you the power to spin up virtual machines quickly to deploy applications and services and move data to managed servers so all you need to consider is your application code and data. Hybrid solutions using Windows Azure's VPN solutions are easily implemented for on and off premise servers and applications.

As a Gold Cloud Platform Partner, we have worked with clients to design and implement custom Azure based solutions spanning the robust features that Windows Azure offers. Whether your solution is in the design phase, has already been deployed, needs to be fully in the cloud or integrated with services and data in your datacenter, we can help design and implement a solution to meet your needs.

Our goal is to ensure that our clients have a great cloud experience. We've partnered with Microsoft to implement their cloud-based services and infrastructure solutions to meet that goal. If you are looking to deploy Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for hosting core services like email, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for getting servers out of your datacenter, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for deploying applications, implementing a private cloud using Hyper-V, or all of the above, we can help.

Our Microsoft cloud implementation and migration services include:

Azure Migration and Data Center Transformation

Migrating your IT infrastructure to the cloud offers many advantages including greater operational efficiency, cost optimization, agility and scalability. Fast Lane helps you achieve these benefits by designing the right cloud strategy focused on your business requirements and goals. By identifying, prioritizing and adapting your workloads, creating a strategic migration plan, designing supporting infrastructure and modifying operating processes, we can help you effectively manage the capacity and availability of your assets to ensure business continuity.

Managing the Change

To get the most from your modernization project, you need a team of experts you can trust to manage the migration process. Strategic planning, implementation, change management and user training are key to our approach. The tools we use have consistently proven to be effective by increasing the performance of thousands of work stations.

Azure Cloud Workshop

Intended for architects and technicians, our practical Microsoft Azure Cloud Workshops speed up the deployment and user adoption of your Azure cloud migration efforts. We guide your experts to evolve along with the solution and ensure that the best practices are efficiently transferred to your organization.

Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP)

Bundling Fast Lane’s high-end service offerings with Microsoft products – Azure, Office 365 and Windows 10 – we ensure you are taken care from implementation through user adoption and support. We offer comprehensive packages that effectively integrate with your business strategies.

Migrating to Office 365

Office 365 provides cloud versions of Microsoft's communications and collaboration software, Exchange, Skype for Business and SharePoint. Migrating to Office 365 offers your organization many advantages in terms of productivity, collaboration, mobility and communication, but every organization is different and such an initiative also involves transformation challenges. Unlike most IT evolutions, the technical aspect of this migration is not the only challenge – it’s the revolution it sparks within a company in how you communicate and work together.

In the digital age, no organization can evolve and become a market leader without transforming the work habits of its employees and teams. Our experience shows that this migration requires complementary skills in terms of planning, design, implementation, project management, technical support, change management and training. We believe the transformation of work habits not only increases your business’s productivity, but also enhances satisfaction and engagement on the part of individuals and teams.

The Fast Lane team offers migration and transition services focused on the experience of your users and your business units to best align with your organization’s needs, and can continue to be involved as your organization expands the scope and sophistication of your Office 365 ecosystem over time.

Automation and DevOps

Today’s modern organizations need to deliver products and services to customers more efficiently than ever. Investing in DevOps automation practices allows you to rethink your application delivery methods.

The Fast Lane team can support you with DevOps design, the integration of automation tools and continuous delivery techniques to accelerate software modification, delivery and deployment. We ensure the process’s reliability and quality from coding to production.

Data Analysis and the Internet of Things (IoT)

The Internet of Things (IoT) is generating more data than ever before. Structuring this data and applying advanced analysis enables you to make faster, better decisions and generate additional value for your organization.

Our team unleashes the power of Microsoft Power BI Analytics running on Azure to give you a single view of your critical data providing the visibility you need to make sense of your information. Monitoring the health of your business with a live dashboard that creates rich, interactive reports and offers remote access to your data via native Power BI Mobile apps provides the insight and flexibility you need to optimize your business decisions.

Cloud Development and Application Modernization

Taking full advantage of the Cloud allows organizations to further invest in software improvement and innovation and spend less time and resources on maintenance.

Fast Lane experts use a “cloud-first, mobile-first” development model to modernize existing applications or create evolving software solutions, hosted in a secure cloud environment. Our Agile development practices allow us to ensure continuous delivery and a consistent experience for your internal and external clients.