Should you consider Azure?

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3. Presenter
Gregory Shepard
Azure Architect
InCycle Software
Miami, FL
(800) 353-0797
gregory.shepard@incyclesoftware.com
www.incyclesoftware.com

4. Agenda
Should you consider Azure?
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Introduction to Azure
Planning Framework
An Example in Action
Q&A / Next Steps

5. SHOULD YOU CONSIDER AZURE?

6. What is Cloud Computing?
 US National Institute of Standards (NIST)
defines five key characteristics:
 On-demand self-service.
 Broad network access.
 Resource pooling.
 Rapid elasticity
 Measured service.

7. Cloud adoption trends
 Cloud Adoption rate is accelerating fast

8. Cloud adoption statistics

10. Cloud Service Types
Types Key Points
Software
as a service
- SaaS -
 Software apps delivered as cloud services
 Subscription based
 Easy Access
 No “IT” Management by Users
Platform
as a service
- PaaS -
 Provides resources used to build solutions
 Encapsulates OS, Storage, Compute
 Easy to stand up applications
 No “IT” Management by Users
Infrastructure
as a service
- IaaS -
 Virtualized server and network components
 Easy to provision
 Full control of components
 “IT” Management required

11. Data Runtime Middleware O/SApplicationsManagement:
Control
Support for legacy apps
Agility
DataManagement:
Ease of Use
IaaS
PaaS
Virtual Machines
Web/Worker Role
WebSites
Control
Support for legacy apps
Agility
Ease of Use
Control
Support for legacy apps
Agility
Ease of Use
Applications
Comparison of IaaS and PaaS

14. PLANNING FRAMEWORK

15. Prepare Migrate Measure
High-Level Planning Framework

16. Preparation step
 Introduce Azure to the development team
 Establish high-level strategy
• Identify key objectives for using Azure
• Ex: Security, scalability, ease of maintenance, risks, etc.
• Key Measures
 List candidate applications
 Select one or a few applications
Migrate MeasurePrepare

17. Preparation step Migrate MeasurePrepare

18. Migrate MeasurePrepare
Migration step

19. • Measure migration success based on your
establised measures
• Document and present findings
• Update Azure strategy
• Plan the next migration if applicable
Measure step Migrate MeasurePrepare

20. AN EXAMPLE IN ACTION

21. Preparation step
 Team Intro: 5 day ADS Proof of Concept Engagement
 Strategy/Objectives
• Lower cost of deployments
• Use latest HW/SW
• Reduce IT Management Load
Ready team for Dev/Test in the Cloud
• Scale to 100’s of users
 Measures
 Time for Feature updates/deployment
 IT Management Load
 Migrate: The Ad listing web application
Migrate MeasurePrepare

22.  Create an Azure cloud service
 Create an Azure SQL database
 Create an Azure storage account
 Configure the solution to use your Azure SQL database
 Configure the solution to use your Azure Blob and Queue
 Deploy the project to Azure a cloud service
Migrate MeasurePrepare
Migration step: Details

23. Migrate MeasurePrepare
Migration step: Current Arch.

24. Migrate MeasurePrepare
Migration step: Azure Arch.

25.  Time for Feature updates/deployment:
• Stage updates in under 5 min
• Ready for improvements using Dev/Ops in the
Cloud
 IT Management Load
• IT team monitoring alerts from Azure
• No Hardware/Software/Patch managemen
 Documented measurements updated strategy and
presented process improvements to CTO
 Plan Migration of Vendor Management Portal!
Measure step Migrate MeasurePrepare

26. Questions?
Gregory Shepard
Azure Architect
InCycle Software
Miami, FL
(800) 353-0797
gregory.shepard@incyclesoftware.com
www.incyclesoftware.com

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28. Questions?
Gregory Shepard
Azure Architect
InCycle Software
Miami, FL
(800) 353-0797
gregory.shepard@incyclesoftware.com
www.incyclesoftware.com