Azure Delivering Scale During Unprecedented Times
It is imperative Public Sector organisations ensure governance around security, data protection and compliance with ongoing legislation when tendering for website solutions. Azure delivers for regulated industries and for those in Public Sector. I‑Finity is a Microsoft Silver Partner who understands the importance of keeping software applications fully protected. For its public sector customers all websites and databases are fully compliant and protected with using a secure and trusted cloud platform with Azure.
City Councils News Website
As specialists in cloud technology I‑Finity has been working with Microsoft Azure for many years. With the use of Microsoft Azure, the City Councils news website is kept secure, is easily scaled, and provides high availability. All data for the website remains within the UK at all times as Azure enables us to control where data needs to reside.
Providing a fully managed hosted solution that I‑Finity monitors, leaves the councils team to focus on publishing daily website news for its residents, businesses and the wider community.
The Results
Council’s news website was a high traffic website but there was significantly increased demand during key Covid-19 updates that took place in the general media. The demand on the site was appearing all at once in several peaks versus being dispersed over a day like it would have been pre-covid time. These high levels of demand, in a very short time period, were successfully supported with Microsoft’s cloud technology. I-Finity’s deep technical expertise with the Azure platform enabled the optimal implementation to ensure scalability and high availability. Proactive monitoring was in place to ensure the right decisions were being made at the right times.
growth in users in one month successfully scaled to deal with the demand
growth in another month (in comparison to previous year’s monthly users)
Website remained stable, operational and performant whilst coping with the significant increases in demand.
Scalable cloud technology supported a period of unprecedented times allowing the Council’s news team to remain connected with its residents, businesses and communities at a time when everyone was consuming news to better understand Covid-19.
