Cloud and Infrastructure Services

Reliable, scalable foundations that support performance and growth.

Cloud and infrastructure underpin every part of a modern IT environment. As organisations adopt cloud platforms, support remote work, and modernise systems, infrastructure must remain secure and easy to manage while still allowing room to evolve.

ABT delivers cloud and infrastructure services that help organisations design, build, and manage environments using Microsoft Azure, hybrid architectures, and modern infrastructure platforms.

Cloud Infrastructure on Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure provides a global cloud platform that allows organisations to run applications and workloads across Microsoft-managed datacentres worldwide. ABT designs Azure environments that support consistent performance and availability, ensuring systems remain accessible as demand changes.

This global footprint enables organisations to deliver reliable user experiences while supporting growth and geographic expansion.

Flexible platforms without lock-in

Azure supports a wide range of operating systems, programming languages, frameworks, and tools. ABT designs infrastructure that allows organisations to modernise workloads without being restricted to a single technology stack, supporting both existing systems and new applications.

This flexibility makes Azure well suited to organisations evolving their infrastructure over time.

Security, backup, and resilience by design

Azure infrastructure includes integrated security controls, identity management, and threat detection capabilities. ABT configures environments to leverage these features, reducing exposure and improving visibility into activity across systems.

Data protection is supported through centralised backup and geo-replicated storage, helping organisations protect critical data and meet long-term retention requirements.

Cost efficiency and operational agility

By shifting away from physical infrastructure, organisations reduce the cost and overhead associated with maintaining data centres. Azure enables businesses to pay only for the storage and compute resources they use, scaling capacity up or down as needed.

This agility allows infrastructure changes to be made quickly, supporting uptime and responsiveness without lengthy upgrade cycles.

Hybrid IT Environments

Hybrid models allow organisations to retain control over sensitive data and mission-critical workloads by keeping them on-premise or in private environments, while still leveraging the flexibility of the public cloud.

This provides greater control over where systems and data are hosted, supports policy-based workload placement, and allows the private environment to be tailored to operational and security requirements.

Scale securely when demand changes

Public cloud resources can be used to absorb increases in demand, reducing pressure on on-premise infrastructure and improving performance during peak periods.

Hybrid environments support:

• Seamless scaling using public cloud capacity
• Faster infrastructure changes compared to traditional hardware upgrades
• Improved performance when computing demands spike

Strengthen business continuity

Hybrid infrastructure improves resilience by enabling data duplication and backup to the cloud. In the event of outages or failures, systems can be recovered more quickly, reducing downtime and disruption.

ABT provides ongoing management across hybrid environments to ensure consistent monitoring, connectivity, and security regardless of where systems are hosted.

Opportunities to test, innovate, and shift to the cloud at your own pace.
Control: Instead of trusting a third-party cloud provider to manage every aspect of a company’s IT infrastructure, our Managed Services team can customise and adjust the private end of its hybrid model to fit its needs, maintaining control over critical operations and data.
Scalability: A hybrid infrastructure allows a company to tap into the flexibility and power of the public cloud to seamlessly increase its operational capacity when computing demands spike, while allowing business-critical data and operations to remain in the private cloud or an on-premise data centre. Changing out hardware and software is much faster and easier in a cloud environment compared to traditional network infrastructure, where upgrading can take weeks or even months.
Security: With a hybrid cloud model, businesses can leverage the security of on-premises infrastructure and private cloud while taking advantage of the power and services of a public cloud—reducing the potential exposure of critical data. While data stored in a private environment will likely still have to run on a public cloud for analytics and applications, an encryption protocol can be used to minimise security breaches. Organisations can also decide where in the cloud to house their data and workloads based on policy, compliance and security requirements.
Cost savings: From a cost perspective, hybrid cloud storage is an attractive alternative to a purely private cloud, which can be expensive to update and expand over time. A hybrid infrastructure allows a company to optimise its IT spending while lowering operational expenses with the secure, scalable public cloud for non-mission critical parts of its business. Hybrid cloud vendors often allow companies to pay for public cloud services only when they need them.
Business continuity: Hybrid environments allow the public cloud to absorb workload surges, so as computing demands increase or suddenly spike, private servers won’t be overloaded. Companies can also back up data by duplicating it to the cloud. This ensures that, in the event of a disaster or computing failure, business operations will not be interrupted.

Centralised backup service in the cloud.
Run your Apps Anywhere: As the best cloud service from Microsoft, Azure runs on a worldwide network of Microsoft-managed datacentres across 22 regions—more countries and regions than Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud combined. This fast-growing global footprint gives you lots of options for running applications and ensuring great customer performance. Azure is also the first multinational cloud provider in mainland China.
Use an Open and Flexible Cloud Service Platform: Azure supports the broadest selection of operating systems, programming languages, frameworks, tools, databases and devices. Run Linux containers with Docker integration; build apps with JavaScript, Python, .NET, PHP, Java and Node.js; build back-ends for iOS, Android and Windows devices. Azure cloud service supports the same technologies millions of developers and IT professionals already rely on and trust.
Data Backup: Simplify tape management with significant cost savings, short recovery times, and up to 99 years of retention. Stored in geo-replicated storage, maintaining 6 copies of data across 2 Azure datacentres with 99.9% service availability.
Security: Leverage advanced analytics and threat intelligence to detect attacks. Simplify investigation for rapid threat response. Use access and application controls to block malicious activity.
Cost Savings: Cloud infrastructure offers major cost savings on operating expenses. Cloud customers get all the components and services they need delivered through the cloud, rather than creating, building, managing, and maintaining a data centre. This saves huge amounts of spending on energy bills, IT expertise, hardware, servers, and software that accompany a physical data centre. Instead, cloud infrastructure enables businesses to pay for only the data storage and computing power they need as and when they require it.
Agility and flexibility: Cloud infrastructures are highly agile and flexible because they are self-managed and allow service changes to be made in a matter of minutes. This increases uptime and makes business systems efficient, enabling users to access shared data through mobile or Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices as necessary. As a result, organisations become more focused on business and issues that drive the bottom line than being bogged down in IT matters.

Azure Virtual Desktop

Secure access to desktops and applications

Azure Virtual Desktop allows organisations to deliver desktops and applications from the cloud, giving users secure access while keeping systems and data centrally managed.

As hybrid and remote work become standard, this approach reduces complexity, improves security, and simplifies desktop management.

ABT was one of the first Managed Services Providers in Australia to deliver Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop as a production-ready solution. Environments are designed to provide reliable access to Windows desktops and Microsoft 365 applications, delivered securely from Microsoft Azure.

Azure Virtual Desktop supports

• Secure access to desktops and applications from any location
• A consistent user experience across office, remote, and hybrid work
• Centralised control of applications, updates, and user access
• Reduced reliance on traditional on-premise desktop infrastructure

By running desktops and applications within Azure, data remains within controlled cloud environments rather than on local devices. Identity and conditional access controls help enforce security and compliance, including in bring-your-own-device scenarios.

Azure Virtual Desktop can scale quickly as user numbers or demand change. Users can be added or removed without lengthy deployment cycles, and existing Microsoft licensing can often be reused to help manage costs.

ABT delivers Azure Virtual Desktop through a structured approach that includes assessment, planning, deployment, and ongoing optimisation, ensuring environments perform reliably in real-world conditions.

Infrastructure Modernisation

Infrastructure modernisation focuses on improving reliability, performance, and manageability across IT environments while reducing technical debt.

ABT helps organisations assess existing infrastructure and plan modernisation initiatives that align to operational priorities. This may include migrating workloads to Azure, upgrading legacy platforms, improving network design, or implementing modern management and security controls.

Infrastructure modernisation typically addresses:
• Legacy systems that are difficult to support or scale
• Performance or reliability issues across infrastructure
• Gaps in visibility, security, or manageability
• The need to support future growth or change

Modernisation is delivered in stages to minimise risk and disruption, ensuring improvements support day-to-day operations while positioning organisations for the future.

Why Organisations Choose ABT for Cloud and Infrastructure

Organisations work with ABT because cloud and infrastructure services are delivered with a strong operational focus.

ABT designs environments that are practical to manage, secure by design, and aligned to how organisations operate day to day. Clear ownership, proactive management, and consistent communication ensure infrastructure remains stable while supporting ongoing change and growth.

Speak with an ABT Specialist

If your organisation is looking to build, modernise, or better manage its cloud and infrastructure environment, ABT can help.

Speak with an ABT specialist to review your current infrastructure and understand how cloud and hybrid solutions can support your organisation.

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