Azure workload planning
Map applications, dependencies, data, users, performance, and recovery needs before selecting Azure services.
10 / Public cloud
Microsoft Azure for a connected, supportable environment.
Compare Azure infrastructure and managed services around your applications, identity, security, Microsoft ecosystem, and hybrid requirements.
Azure is an infrastructure and platform decision. Microsoft 365 is a productivity suite. They can connect, but they solve different problems.
01 / Overview
Keep Azure and Microsoft 365 distinct — and connected.
Azure can provide virtual infrastructure, databases, storage, backup, disaster recovery, application services, and hybrid connectivity. Microsoft 365 focuses on productivity and collaboration. A business may use both, but licensing, identity, workloads, and support need to be planned separately.
We help you evaluate Azure alongside private cloud, AWS, Google Cloud, hosted infrastructure, and on-site systems. The goal is a clear operating plan for the applications and people behind the platform choice.
02 / What we help with
The useful details behind the decision.
We help connect the service to the users, locations, applications, and support model that make it work in practice.
Virtual infrastructure
Compare compute, storage, databases, and application services around the workloads your team needs to run.
Hybrid Azure environments
Plan connections between Azure, on-site systems, private cloud, offices, and users with clear responsibility.
Identity and security
Review Entra ID, roles, network controls, logging, monitoring, and security practices across the environment.
Backup and recovery
Set recovery priorities, retention, testing, and restoration responsibilities for important workloads and data.
Governance and support
Make administration, change control, documentation, usage review, and ongoing support part of the design.
03 / Who it’s for
Built around the business behind the system.
The right design changes with the work. Here are a few of the local businesses and operating models we help think through.
Healthcare
Balance application access, patient workflows, privacy, recovery, and the operational support behind cloud systems.
Retail and hospitality
Support customer-facing applications, inventory, reservations, files, analytics, and continuity across locations.
Professional services
Make client work, collaboration, data access, and recovery easier to manage as teams and applications change.
Manufacturing and logistics
Connect planning, inventory, operations, reporting, and site dependencies to the right cloud environment.
Technology teams
Compare platform capabilities, governance, connectivity, and operating effort around the workloads being built.
Growing businesses
Create a cloud path that leaves room for new users, locations, applications, and more accountable support.
04 / How we work
A simpler path through a complicated choice.
Good advice starts with context and stays useful through the handoff.
Understand
We listen before we prescribe.We map your current setup, friction points, users, locations, and priorities so the recommendation starts with the real business.
Compare
We make the tradeoffs visible.We evaluate providers and paths side by side, then explain fit, assumptions, service terms, and the work required to move forward.
Support
We stay for the handoff.From implementation through ongoing optimization, we help keep the moving parts connected and accountable.
05 / The Salish point of view
Azure guidance that does not confuse the suite with the platform.
We are vendor-neutral and evaluate Azure around workloads, identity, security, Microsoft 365 relationships, and operational capacity. Providers may compensate us when you choose a service. We do not promise savings or a specific Azure result; scope and any fees are explained before work begins.
Ask a practical questionLocal context
See the work in your market.
Our city pages add local context to the same clear comparison process. Start with the market closest to your business.
06 / Questions, answered
Useful answers before the first conversation.
Direct answers are a better starting point than a generic feature list.
Bring us your questionWhat is Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure is a public cloud platform for infrastructure, storage, databases, applications, backup, disaster recovery, identity integrations, and other managed services. It is separate from Microsoft 365.
What is the difference between Azure and Microsoft 365?
Azure provides cloud infrastructure and platform services. Microsoft 365 provides productivity and collaboration services such as email, Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive. They can share identity and security controls, but they are different service families.
Can Azure replace servers in our office?
It can for some workloads, but the decision depends on applications, dependencies, access, licensing, network paths, security, recovery, and the support model your team can manage.
Does Azure work with Microsoft 365?
Yes. Many businesses use both, with Microsoft 365 supporting collaboration and Azure supporting selected infrastructure or applications. We help clarify identity, security, connectivity, and ownership across the two.
How much does Azure guidance cost?
In many cases, providers compensate us when you choose a service. If a project includes fees, we explain the scope and fees before work begins; there is no savings guarantee.
A practical next step
Let’s make the Azure decision easier to operate.
Tell us what belongs in Azure, what remains elsewhere, and how Microsoft 365 fits into the day. We will help compare the platform and the work around it.