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Why Global Enterprises Need Azure Landing Zones
Global Expansion Brings Global Complexity
Expanding across regions through M&A often leads to fragmented architectures and conflicting regulations. And it’s not just inconvenient. Between 70–90% of acquisitions fail due to integration issues (Harvard Business Review¹). A unified cloud foundation helps simplify operations and supports secure, scalable growth.
Legacy Infrastructure Challenges
Many global enterprises still rely on outdated, siloed infrastructure that’s hard to scale and manage. It leads to security gaps, poor visibility, and slow cloud deployments. Gartner says 85% of enterprises will struggle to deliver on digital strategies by 2025 because of legacy tech². If that sounds familiar, it’s time to rethink your foundation.
Exposure at Scale
Operating at the scale and geographical reach in which multinational organizations do leaves IT infrastructures exposed to structure and security vulnerabilities. Global security spending is expected to hit $212 billion in 2025 (Gartner)³, driven by rising threats and cloud vulnerabilities. Without a resilient architecture, those risks only grow.
Integration and Accuracy Struggles
Without the right architecture, integrating apps and getting reliable data is a constant struggle. Only 28% of enterprise applications are integrated, even though nearly all IT leaders say it’s the biggest barrier to adopting AI (Gartner⁴). Azure landing zones help connect your systems and unlock smarter decisions.
Sources
Harvard Business Review – “Don’t Make This Common M&A Mistake”
Gartner – “Legacy Systems: The Achilles’ Heel of Digital Transformation”
Gartner – “Worldwide End-User Spending on Information Security to Total $213 Billion in 2025”
Gartner – “40% of Enterprise Apps Will Feature Task-Specific AI Agents by 2026"
What are Azure Landing Zones?
With Azure Landing Zones (ALZ), multinationals can say goodbye to all these challenges, with a scalable approach to cloud deployment.
Azure Landing Zones are strategically designed, pre-configured cloud environments that create a strong, secure and stable foundation for deploying workloads directly within Microsoft Azure.
They're an effective way for businesses to manage their end-to-end IT estate, providing the foundations for a more secure IT environment, greater integration between applications and reduced security and shadow applications risks.
With a landing zone in place, businesses can seamlessly manage and deploy new cloud solutions to their entire workforce – across multiple regions and business units.
Azure Landing Zones Drive Security, Speed, and Cost Efficiency
For businesses operating fully or partially in the cloud, particularly those utilizing Microsoft technologies, landing zones are non-negotiable.
For organizations to set themselves up for success, they need a secure baseline environment that can be used to setup, deploy, manage and govern how they operate in the cloud.
Multinationals leveraging Azure Landing Zones can expect to benefit from:
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Standardization of Governance
Enables consistent policies across all regions and business units, reducing the risk of gaps in security protocols.
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Acceleration of Cloud Adoption
Supports faster deployment of workloads due to pre-defined configurations, templates and automation.
- 3
Enhancement of Security & Compliance
Integrates with Microsoft’s wider security solutions to provide a more secure core, with centralized logging and monitoring.
- 4
Repeatability of Operations
Standardizes tagging, hierarchies and naming conventions so that every team in every business unit or region works from the same playbook.
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Supports Hybrid & Multi-Cloud
Provides a secure foundation for integration with other cloud platforms or on-premises infrastructure, supporting the smoother onboarding and integration of new territories or business units.
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Delivers Cost Optimizations
Ensures multinational organizations can manage and optimize cloud spend with ease, with effective alerts and forecasting capabilities to keep them on track.
Five Examples of Azure Landing Zones in Action
1. Manage and Scale Cloud Infra for M&A
Facilitates the integration of environments and applications, making it easier to manage and scale cloud infrastructures.
2. Strengthen Security & Reduce Shadow IT
Guarantees greater organization-wide security, which mitigates the risks of any shadow IT issues.
3. Modernize Applications
Facilitates a secure and scalable platform to migrate and modernize applications and infrastructure to the cloud, enabling resource optimization by moving to a pay per use model from a capex heavy fixed cost approach.
4. Accelerate DevOps and Experimentation
Enables organizations to build, deploy and experiment with new solutions, speeding up application deployment.
5. Build a Foundation for AI Innovation
Provides a robust and scalable foundation for deploying and managing AI solutions, which helps organizations integrate AI more easily.
Discover HSO's Proven Approach to Azure Landing Zones, Built on Microsoft Best Practices
Top 1% Microsoft Partner Globally for Azure
When it comes to delivering complex technical infrastructures, HSO’s true global practice means we're experts in delivering transformation for multinational organizations.
At HSO, we don’t just understand technology—we understand the business transformation it enables. Our deep industry expertise and global delivery capabilities allow us to help multinational enterprises overcome fragmented cloud environments, inconsistent governance, and compliance risks. We turn complexity into clarity, delivering secure, scalable, and future-ready cloud foundations.
As one of the top 1% of Microsoft Partners globally with Azure Expert MSP status, HSO is uniquely positioned to guide your cloud modernization journey.
We’ve designed and supported hundreds of landing zones for global brands, helping them unlock operational efficiency, reduce risk, and accelerate innovation. Our approach is holistic: one partner, one contract, one roadmap to transformation.
Reduce Implementation Time by Up to 50% With HSO's Enterprise Landing Zone Accelerator
Our Azure Landing Zone Accelerator is built on decades of hands-on experience—not generic templates. It ensures your cloud foundation is aligned with Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework and tailored to your business needs.
By leveraging our proprietary accelerator and over forty years of expertise in delivering complex enterprise solutions, we dramatically reduce the time required to design and deploy Azure Landing Zones. This streamlined approach enables organizations to move faster, with greater confidence and control.
The result? A 50% reduction in implementation time, translating to faster time-to-value, improved efficiency, and a significant cost savings.
The biggest reason why landing zones take time is because you have to define exactly what sort of measures, policies and management that are needed, and that is what takes a lot of time.
With HSO’s accelerator, you benefit from forty years of prior thinking, which means you can benefit from a reduction in implementation by up to fifty percent.
Ready to cut costs and time? Book your Azure Landing Zone Readiness assessment today
Take advantage of more predictable operations at a global level and keep costs under control with HSO’s Azure Landing Zones Readiness assessment, which covers:
• Roadmap to success: An overview of how IT transformation can support the achievement of ambitious business goals
• Risk reduction: How to identify governance and security gaps early, before they become costly issues
• Tailored recommendations: Relatable suggestions about how HSO’s best practice experiences can be applied to your organization
• Benchmarking: An assessment of your current setup with expert insight into how it compares to other organizations within your industry
Get a Free Readiness Assessment
In just one hour, you'll walk away with:
• Actionable recommendations tailored to your cloud architecture and governance needs.
• A clear roadmap for scalable, secure cloud adoption across global operations.
• Proven strategies to reduce risk, accelerate deployment, and optimize spend.
Trusted by global leaders like Harvest House and Stich'd, HSO delivers scalable, secure Azure Landing Zones that empower multinationals to standardize governance, modernize infrastructure, and future-proof their cloud foundation with confidence.