Today more organizations are looking to the cloud to increase agility, reduce capital costs, and free up staff time and resources. After phasing cloud technologies into the “low-hanging fruit†areas of testing and development, however, companies encounter complexity and difficulty when attempting to take the next step and transition mission-critical workloads to cloud environments. In this white paper, you’ll learn how Simpana software and Microsoft Azure’s cloud infrastructure enable seamless transitions of production workloads into and out of the cloud.