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Azure Integration Guide for Business

By : Joshua Garverick, Jack Lee, Mélony Qin, Trevoir Williams
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Azure Integration Guide for Business

By: Joshua Garverick, Jack Lee, Mélony Qin, Trevoir Williams

Overview of this book

Azure Integration Guide for Business is essential for decision makers planning to transform their business with Microsoft Azure. The Microsoft Azure cloud platform can improve the availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of any business. The guidance in this book will help decision makers gain valuable insights into proactively managing their applications and infrastructure. You'll learn to apply best practices in Azure Virtual Network and Azure Storage design, ensuring an efficient and secure cloud infrastructure. You'll also discover how to automate Azure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and leverage various Azure services to support OLTP applications. Next, you’ll explore how to implement Azure offerings for event-driven architectural solutions and serverless applications. Additionally, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge on how to develop an automated, secure, and scalable solutions. Core elements of the Azure ecosystem will be discussed in the final chapters of the book, such as big data solutions, cost governance, and best practices to help you optimize your business. By the end of this book, you’ll understand what a well-architected Azure solution looks like and how to lead your organization toward a tailored Azure solution that meets your business needs.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Common cloud networking scenarios

As the industry changes, and along with it, the myriad of cloud services you can work with, so do the patterns available to organizations. Whether companies are looking to create one consolidated network footprint or isolate workloads from existing network segments, there are many potential solutions. Cloud services continue to mature and change, which inevitably makes it challenging to evaluate and implement the right solutions. The common scenarios companies encounter, however, tend to be similar. We’ll look at some of those scenarios now.

Enterprise networks

The term “enterprise network” refers to any network estate within a company or organization that is comprised of various segments, security policies, and traffic types. They generally involve traffic flowing between one or more central offices and satellite or branch offices. The most likely use case that tends to arise is that of the hybrid network, where companies...