Using Microsoft Azure in your Business

The what, why and how

• What is Azure

• A quick look at Azure live

• Key technical aspects

• 3 common Azure use cases

• 3 step plan

• Q&A

Agenda

What is Azure

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True cloud economics. Pay by the minute!

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True cloud economics. Billing stops when you stop!

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Azure Live Demo

Getting Started with Virtual Machines

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How it Works

How it Works

PowerShell for Automation and Advanced Management

Gateway

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Extend your infrastructure

Develop, test, run your apps

Store, backup, recover your data

Extend your infrastructure

Develop, test, run your apps

Highly durable and scalable

Multiple copies of your data

Financially backed SLAs

Storage for objects, tables, drives

Supports REST APIs

Plus Geo-Replication

Simple and fast on-ramp to Azure

Active data instantly available locally

Archives less used data to Windows Azure

Recover data from any internet connection

Reduce enterprise storage TCO by 60-80%

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Virtual datacenter

Develop, test, run your apps

Store, backup, recover your data

Extend your infrastructure

Develop, test, run your apps

Store, backup, recover your data

Your Datacenter

Develop, test, run your apps

Develop, test, run your apps

Develop, test, run your apps

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Extend your infrastructure

Develop, test, run your apps

Store, backup, recover

Extend your infrastructure

Develop, test, run your apps

Store, backup, recover your data

Your Datacenter

Active Directory

SharePoint SQL Server

Extend your infrastructure

Extend your infrastructure

Extend your infrastructure

1. Play with your fee account

2. Do simple edge services – websites• You just load your data

• Azure manages the rest

• Load video and large content files

• Website can be free/shared/standard

3. Hybrid cloud – use VNET• Do dev/test with local data sources

• Backup and archiving

• Try DirSync

• Consider System Center in Azure

A 3 Step Plan

• Use DPS for an Azure hybrid cloud pilot

• StorSimple/Azure offer

Help

Q&A