Our Azure Certifications
Azure Technical Assessment and Cost Optimisation (TACO)
Are you paying too much for your cloud services?
You’re not alone—many businesses overspend on Azure managed services without even realising it. That’s where our free Azure TACO review comes in. We’ll uncover where you can cut unnecessary costs, strengthen security, and get more value from your cloud investment—all without disrupting your operations.
Our Azure infrastructure solutions
From data storage and analytics to artificial intelligence and machine learning, our Azure managed services offer a comprehensive suite of solutions that can empower your business and drive innovation.
We help you eliminate waste, right-size your Azure environment, and unlock significant savings. By combining Reserved Instances with Azure Savings Plans, we reduce upfront investment and cut compute costs by up to 72%.
Our automated cost management tools proactively detect anomalies and trends, while our experts provide ongoing optimisation reviews and tailored recommendations—ensuring your Azure tenancy stays efficient, cost-effective, and aligned with your business needs.
We help you transition smoothly from legacy systems to Microsoft Azure, combining secure hybrid infrastructure with fully managed server support—covering patching, backup, disaster recovery, antivirus and 24/7 monitoring.
Our experts also help you adopt PaaS solutions such as serverless databases and applications, improving availability, reducing licensing costs, and ensuring reliability—backed by Microsoft’s guaranteed service level agreement of 99.99%.
We deliver application-consistent backups, flexible retention policies, and rapid restores—whether you need a single file or a full system recovery. With Azure Site Recovery, we protect critical workloads against regional outages, optimising Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) to keep downtime minimal.
Backed by proactive monitoring and expert support, we ensure your data stays secure, compliant, and always recoverable.
Our Networking solution delivers secure, high-performance Azure connectivity across on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge environments.
With low-latency, highly available infrastructure, we ensure your applications run seamlessly—backed by over 30 years of Microsoft expertise.
Our Microsoft Azure application hosting solution gives you a secure, scalable, and fully managed platform to run your business apps. With automated OS patching, load balancing, and one-click deployment templates, you can focus on innovation while we handle the infrastructure.
Our Microsoft specialists will support you from day one, ensuring your applications run smoothly and securely in the cloud or on-premises.
Benefits of working with Core
Expert insight
We bring deep technical knowledge of Azure infrastructure, licensing, and governance, so you get clear answers and practical guidance.
Best practice alignment
We make sure your Azure estate is set up the right way—following Microsoft’s recommended configurations and security standards.
Tailored guidance
Our advice is specific to your usage patterns and business goals, not just a one-size-fits-all approach.
Quick wins and strategic planning
We help you unlock immediate savings while also shaping a roadmap for smarter, more resilient infrastructure in the future.
Trusted partner
We work alongside you to put improvements into action and keep your Azure environment running at its best—continuously optimised, secure, and ready to support your business goals.
How to Dramatically Lower Your Azure Spend in 2025
Did you know that nearly a third of all cloud spend goes to waste?
Drastically reducing cloud costs doesn’t require massive architectural changes or heroic migrations.
Get your cloud journey on the right track
From first steps in Microsoft Azure to advanced migration projects, we’ll work with you to get the very best out of the cloud.
Here’s a quick overview of what you’ll get from our assessment:
- A review of your Azure environment
- Cost and performance improvements
- A clear plan to save money
What our customers say about us
Core have been outstanding to work with. They really listened to what we were trying to do, talked through all of their ideas, and fully explained the pros and cons involved while taking into account our long-term business goals.
Over the years, Core and the University of Law have built a strong relationship based on trust, expertise and knowledge. Core has always listened to and addressed our specific needs, before tailoring a specific and precise solution, whether that be delivering a successful SharePoint Online project, or when approached for some guidance or advice around Dynamics 365 licensing. We very much look forward to collaborating on future projects with Core.
It was apparent from day one that Core had a depth of knowledge in Microsoft 365, which we simply hadn’t found anywhere else.
With pre-purposed training modules and the ability to tailor training to our specific needs, Core ticks all the boxes. What may have taken weeks to prepare by way of training materials, instead took only days.
Core have helped us with various projects, from initiation to delivery for web development to app deployments, and they have always shown a high level of expertise and creativity. Core is not just a solution provider, they are also a trusted advisor who take time to understand our needs and goals to ensure our investment delivers value to the business. In an age where supplier engagement can be painful, it has been a pleasure working with Core since the outset!
