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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By : Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón
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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By: Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a multitude of services and capabilities for organizations of any size moving to a cloud strategy. This fourth edition comes with the latest updates on cloud security fundamentals, hybrid cloud, cloud migration, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and Windows Virtual Desktop. It encapsulates the entire spectrum of measures involved in Azure deployment that includes understanding Azure fundamentals, choosing a suitable cloud architecture, building on design principles, becoming familiar with Azure DevOps, and learning best practices for optimization and management. The book begins by introducing you to the Azure cloud platform and demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The guide also acquaints you with practical insights into application modernization, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, key application architectures, best practices of Azure DevOps, and Azure automation. By the end of this book, you will have acquired the skills required to drive Azure operations from the planning and cloud migration stage to cost management and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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8. Conclusion
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Index

About the reviewers

Aaditya Pokkunuri is an experienced senior database engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and service industry, with over 11 years of experience. He is skilled in performance tuning, Microsoft SQL Database Server Administration, SSIS, SSRS, PowerBI, and SQL development. He possesses strong knowledge of replication, clustering, SQL Server high availability options, and ITIL processes. His expertise lies in Windows administration tasks, Active Directory, and Microsoft Azure technologies. He has expertise in AWS Cloud and is an AWS Solution Architect Associate as well. Aaditya is a strong information technology professional with a Bachelor of Technology degree focused on computer science and engineering from Sastra University, Tamil Nadu.

Peter De Tender is a well-known Azure expert and a very passionate and dedicated technical trainer, who always manages to provide inspiring, deeply technical workshops on the Azure platform, packed with demos and fun.

Before Peter joined the prestigious Azure Technical Trainer team within Microsoft, he held a similar position in his own company for 6 years. Now, he's continuing what he loves doing most, upskilling customers and partners in the wonderful world and capabilities of Azure.

Peter has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for more than 10 years and has been a Microsoft MVP since 2013, initially on Windows IT Pro, but he moved to the Azure category in 2015.

Besides co-authoring the previous edition of this book, Peter has published other Azure-oriented material with Packt Publishing, Apress, and through self-publishing.

You can follow Peter on Twitter as @pdtit or @007ffflearning to stay up to date with his Azure adventures.