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Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack

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Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack

Overview of this book

Azure Stack is all about creating fewer gaps between on-premise and public cloud application deployment. Azure Stack is the logical progression of Microsoft Cloud Services to create a true hybrid cloud-ready application. This book provides an introduction to Azure Stack and the cloud-first approach. Starting with an introduction to the architecture of Azure Stack, the book will help you plan and deploy your Azure Stack. Next, you will learn about the network and storage options in Azure Stack and you'll create your own private cloud solution. Finally, you will understand how to integrate public cloud using the third-party resource provider. After reading the book, you will have a good understanding of the end-to-end process of designing, offering, and supporting cloud solutions for enterprises or service providers.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Setting up hybrid cloud solutions


As the Azure Marketplace is filled, we now have to talk about scenarios where hybrid cloud solution designs make sense. In general, it is quite easy to define where we need hybrid solution designs:

  • Data sovereignty
  • Sensitive data
  • Regulations
  • Customizations
  • Legacy support

Hybrid cloud solution, therefore, can be defined as a business- and law-driven cloud solution as nobody really needs it but there are reasons defined by the business and the law that may lead to it.

Data sovereignty

Especially with high sensitive data, there is often the requirement in some business areas where data needs to be in the building, the county, or the country, and there is no change to save it somewhere else as if this intellectual property is lost, the company could close because they may lose their patents and business trademarks.

Sensitive data

For companies working with personal data (for example, health care and doctors), there are countries around the world where this data does not...