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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

Chapter 11. Creating a Hybrid Cloud Solution

In the previous chapter, we talked about what technical features are available to set up hybrid clouds while integrating Azure and Azure Stack. In this chapter, we will discuss some scenarios from real-world projects and show how to prepare Azure Stack for a successful and growing path in the future in most companies. There are some major features that need to be addressed. As soon they are in place, Azure Stack becomes a self-runner in IT and later in general business.

The most important feature of Azure Stack is setting up the Marketplace. There are quite a few possibilities that are valid themselves. You just need to place them in the correct business case in order to succeed. We will talk about the following topics in detail:

  • Setting up the Marketplace
  • Setting up hybrid solutions
  • Internal project marketing

As my experiences are from real-world projects, you will hopefully learn from my experiences that as soon as these three topics are set up properly...