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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)

Chapter 1, Unlock New Opportunities with Azure

We gained insights into why numerous decision makers opt for Azure: its cost-effectiveness, robust security measures, governance capabilities, scalability options, reliable performance, high availability, and more. We also discussed the concept of responsibility segregation within various Azure cloud models. This chapter provides business decision makers with a set of fundamental steps to unlock new opportunities with Azure so that organizations can take full advantage of the cloud.

Chapter 2, Achieve Availability, Scalability, and Monitoring with Azure

In this chapter, we delved deep into Azure’s capabilities for high availability, scalability, and efficient application monitoring. We explored Azure’s inherent flexibility, which enables organizations to effectively manage fluctuations in traffic and demand and allows them to adapt and scale as needed. We learned how Azure equips businesses with invaluable insights...