1. Who should be involved?
Softchoice recommends clients assemble a
cross functional IT & data center team with
a senior IT leader sponsor that provides
alignment to the issues, business drivers and
guides prioritization.
Softchoice Azure Jumpstart
Setting a Secure and Stable Foundation for Microsoft Azure
Why Softchoice Services for Azure?
• Enterprise-grade Azure projects in multiple
verticals and scenarios
• Cross-discipline expertise spanning leading
vendors in data center, hybrid cloud and public
cloud scenarios
• Architects engineers carry over 10 years
average tenure
• Proven IaaS planning methodology to connect
on-premise data center infrastructure
• Day-to-day operations for over 400 core
hybrid infrastructures
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Softchoice’s Cloud Hybrid IT Delivery
Methodology Valuable
100% of IT organizations who engage
Softchoice Cloud Services for Microsoft Cloud
rated Delivery Methodology as valuable or
better compared to alternatives.
Phase Client Benefits
Planning
Discovery
• Project kickoff meeting
• Microsoft Azure Executive Overview
• Identify stakeholders and roles to link operational processes to public cloud
environment
• Review client’s current Azure Active Directory scenario and document for ease of
future operations and management
Implementation
• Creating and associating managed organizational identity
• Enable Azure entitlement and assignment of roles including import of orphaned
subscriptions (i.e. pay-as-you-go)
• Demonstrate best practices for subscription naming and reporting
• Assignment of rights using Azure Role Based Access control
• Creation of Azure Virtual Network and either a Site to Site or Point to Site VPN connection
• Deployment of Active Directory Services on a Virtual Machine in Azure
• Network security rules to protect deployed services
• Review Azure platform functionality discussion to identity future management and
operational accounting requirements
Knowledge
Transfer
Closure
• High-level design of Azure services and resources
• High-level Azure onboarding findings and Azure consumption plan recommendations
• Documentation of configured services, security settings, Azure admins, subscriptions and
subscription IDs for support escalation
• Whiteboard high level integration requirements to enable an optimized hybrid cloud usage
Azure Analytics
Insight:
MySoftchoice
Azure Dashboard
• Access to real-time spend forecast based on monthly usage projections
• View historic spend and evaluate trends on a month-over-month basis related to
consumption
• Rich resource reporting by project or department to facilitate showback or chargeback
requirements
• Evaluate spend based on service type spanning cloud infrastructure
The promise of cloud is unique to your business. To unlock the transformational potential of Azure
on service delivery IT leaders must choose their first steps into the public cloud carefully. Many
clients struggle to navigate the onboarding process and linking existing operational processes
and management roles. In some cases, these leads to an insecure and unstable foundation
making expansion and management difficult.
The Softchoice Azure Jumpstart is designed to provide a rapid activation path with built-in best
practice resulting in an operational, scalable and secure environment. The Azure Jumpstart allows
clients to navigate the complexity of onboarding to Azure by designing and linking appropriate
organizational identities ensuring security is integrated into operational procedures and access.
In addition, the service provides Azure enterprise Entitlements and subscription setup while
integrating orphaned subscriptions into the Microsoft Azure Enterprise Portal.