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Azure: The Sky’s Not the Limit

Microsoft Azure gives UK businesses the flexibility to grow, adapt and stay secure without being held back by ageing infrastructure.
It’s powerful - but only if it’s set up and managed the right way.

As a Microsoft Azure partner, we help you move to the cloud with confidence, keep costs under control, and make sure Azure supports where your business is going next.

Flexible and Secure cloud hosting

Flexible. Secure. Built around you.

Whether you’re moving to Azure for the first time or fine-tuning what you’ve already got, we’re here to guide you every step of the way.

At String, our certified Azure specialists don’t just tick boxes — they tailor your cloud environment to match your goals, your team, and the way you work. From seamless migration to ongoing optimisation and support, we make sure your Azure setup is secure, scalable, and fully aligned with your IT strategy.

Because great cloud hosting isn’t just about where your data lives — it’s about what it empowers you to do.

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As your Azure partner, we offer you

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Seamless Migration

Every transformation starts with a move — but it doesn’t have to be disruptive. Our Azure experts handle the heavy lifting, moving your data and systems smoothly, securely, and with minimal impact on your day-to-day. No drama. No downtime. Just a smarter step forward.
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Secure Solutions

With automatic updates and intelligent threat detection, Azure keeps your systems protected — and so do we. Our cybersecurity specialists monitor and strengthen your setup, so you can focus on business, not breaches.
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Specialist Management

Your dedicated engineers become part of your team — planning, managing, and optimising Azure around how you work. We don’t just support your platform. We help it evolve with you.
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Diligent Cost Management

With Azure, you only pay for what you use — and we make sure that’s exactly what you need. No bloat. No overspend. Just smart, flexible services that match your goals and your budget.

Why choose Microsoft Azure?

Cyber security

Your data deserves more than good intentions — it deserves world-class protection. Azure is backed by Microsoft’s global network of data centres, secured with two-tier authentication, proxy cards, and biometric access. Regular updates and proactive monitoring keep vulnerabilities at bay, so your systems stay safe — without you lifting a finger. Security that’s silent, constant, and always one step ahead.

Low-cost and scalable

Azure flexes with you — not against you. You only pay for what you use, with no wasted storage, no locked-in extras, and no surprise costs. Scale up during busy periods, scale down when things quieten — all without overcommitting or overspending. Smart, responsive cloud services that move with your business.

Back up and manage easily

Disasters happen. But with Azure, recovery doesn’t have to be one of them. Your data is safely backed up — ready to restore whenever you need it, whether it’s a single file or an entire system. And with the Azure Portal, managing storage, settings, and capacity is simple, giving you control without the complexity. Because peace of mind should be built in, not bolted on.

More than just 'servers'

Azure is more than hosting — it’s a full ecosystem for innovation. With over 300 cloud services at your fingertips, Azure covers everything from security and storage to DevOps, IoT, AI, and intelligent databases. Whether you’re building, scaling, automating or analysing — it’s all here, under one roof. Not just infrastructure. A platform for possibility.
The Sporting House – Microsoft 365 Cloud

Microsoft 365 Cloud Technologies Help Drive Olympian Levels of Success

Challenge

Whilst Sporting House had enjoyed rapid growth, their strategy was to significantly accelerate this. They were also acutely aware that their then IT service model was inadequate to support their ambitious plans for a number of reasons.

Solution

String worked with Sporting House to develop a new Microsoft cloud-centric IT strategy, that would leverage Microsoft 365 to support their wider business strategy.
“ We selected String because of their clear understanding of our strategic requirements, and were able to articulate how they, and Microsoft technologies could help us to achieve these. Our relationship with String has proven an extremely rewarding one, and we look forward to continuing to work closely with them moving forwards.”
Lee Cunliffe
Finance Director, The Sporting House
Jones Harris Chartered Accountants

Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Technologies Drive Paperless, Secure & Remote Office

Challenge

Jones Harris wanted to move to a fully paperless operation, without any interruption to the business. The company had a major dependency on a local Microsoft SQL Server database for their line-of-business applications, which limited their choices in terms of a potential cloud-only solution.

Solution

String worked with Jones Harris to help them adopt a hybrid-cloud solution, providing the optimal blend of Microsoft 365 cloud services, with the high performance computing power required by their LoB. Jones Harris now make full use of Microsoft's Power Platform, utilising Power BI for business intelligence, and Power Automate for business process automation.
“ String worked very closely with our internal guys, planning it out, mapping it out. There was absolutely no break in service, we were expecting there to be a few bugs, but it was a really smooth and impressive operation to get everything across and migrated. Absolutely top notch work, the String team!”
Martin Wigley
Director, Jones Harris Chartered Accountants
Ludlow Wealth Management - Azure Virtual Desktop

Access to Key Line of Business Applications Hosted on Microsoft Azure

Challenge

The increasing demand for online meetings, driven by the Covid crisis, meant that the Remote Desktop Solution was unable to provide an acceptable user experience. When the time came to refresh their IT infrastructure, we worked with the Ludlow team to ensure that the next upgrade cycle would address the changing end-user requirements, while further enhancing their cyber security and providing a high degree of scalability to cope with their ongoing growth.

Solution

Working with Ludlow, we produced a business case that showed that moving to Microsoft's Azure Virtual Desktop solution, and hosting their LoB application on Microsoft Azure would provide a more secure, cost-effective alternative to purchasing a physical server cluster. Their LoB application was migrated to Azure, and presented to end-users as a Published Application, removing the need for them to connect to a separate virtual desktop to access the app. Azure Backup was used to provide backup and business continuity and to further enhance Microsoft's already robust resilience measures.
“ String has consistently provided us with innovative IT solutions, without compromising our cyber security. The whole team are a pleasure to work with, and we consider them a trusted extension to our own team.”
Rob Brown
Chief Operating Officer, Ludlow Wealth Management Group.
One Fylde - Microsoft Modern Workplace

Identifying Microsoft Modern Workplace as the Best Choice for the Client

Challenge

Following a merger between two organisations, our client found themselves with a disjointed IT service that comprised two large on-premise data centres, various security technologies, and a variety of remote access solutions. The result was a costly, difficult to manage IT infrastructure, with a poor user experience due to a lack of standardisation in the way IT was used. Of concern was that, as a large care provider, the client was responsible for the safe-keeping of a large amount of personal medical and financial data. Plus, users had become used to creating work-arounds to allow them to access and share sensitive information. The complexity of the IT infrastructure also meant they were suffering frequent service outages.

Solution

We discussed the opportunity for them to move away from their large, unwieldy on-premises infrastructure and instead to move to a wholly Microsoft cloud-based IT service. From our early discussions it was clear that such a move would allow us to radically re-imagine their approach to document and information management, business processes, and information security. The concept was embraced enthusiastically by the client, and it was agreed to move on to an initial business case analysis exercise. Firstly, however, we were engaged to stabilise the existing infrastructure, and to address the inadequate business continuity provision. The move to Microsoft Modern Workplace has allowed One Fylde to ensure data is more secure and improve workplace processes. All 400 users were able to access all relevant documents securely from any location. And the client can now enjoy the very latest in innovations from Microsoft on almost a weekly cycle.
“ One Fylde started to work with String at a time where our IT infrastructure was causing problems almost on a daily basis. The problems were meaning staff couldn't do their job to support people with learning disabilities in the way we wanted. String became involved with us and worked as a 'real' partner, feeling like part of the team to solve the immediate problem and with an eye to a longer-term more sustainable solution. We are now in a position where I can sleep at night and our staff are seeing the benefit of the huge amount of work that has gone on. And on a seperate note the whole team at String are really friendly, personable and supportive, working with us and continuing to support us to look at the future. ”
Tracey Bush
CEO, One Fylde

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