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Azure can really benefit your business by providing access to resources in the cloud and reducing costs at the same time. Azure provides high availability, backup and SLAs for your cloud-based infrastructure.
Azure can be managed with a variety of different tools.
As a company you will probably end up with multiple subscriptions and lots of resources. Naming conventions and tags help you to keep everything organized. Permissions can be assigned to control access to your resources.
An Azure storage account contains all of your Azure Storage data objects: blobs, files, queues, tables, and disks. Data in your Azure storage account is durable and highly available, secure, massively scalable, and accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTPS.
Virtual Networks in Azure allow you to setup communication between your VMs. Virtual Networks can be connected to one another through VNet peering. A VPN Gateway can be deployed to connect to your on-prem network, using a site-to-site or point-to-site tunnel. If you need dedicated bandwidth, you can choose an ExpressRoute connection, giving your company a direct, private link to the Azure Datacenters.
With virtual machines you have access to a scalable computing infrastructure on demand when you quickly need to create new environments to fulfill the growing needs of your organization. Azure provides a set of predefined Windows and Linux operating systems in different configurations to get you started. You can also upload your own VHDs and start from there.
To control your network traffic flow, you can implement user defined routes. Protecting access to your resources can be accomplished by enabling endpoints or implementing a Firewall.
VMs in Azure are controlled and managed by you. That means that you will be responsible for backup, update management and business continuity. Azure does provide services to help you accomplish these tasks.
Troubleshooting VMs in the cloud can be difficult, especially if something goes wrong early in the boot process. Azure offers some solutions to assist you in this process.
To improve the performance of your applications, you can implement Virtual Machine Scale Sets. A scale set contains one or more VMs that host the same application. Additional VMs can be started manually or automatically based on resource usage.Microsoft Azure provides multiple services to distribute and load balance network traffic. You can use these services individually or combine their methods, depending on your needs, to build the optimal solution.
With Azure Web Apps you can deploy and scale modern websites and web apps in seconds.
Azure SQL Database delivers Database-as-a-Service functionality, based on SQL Server and hosted in Microsoft Azure. SQL Azure focuses on predictable performance, scalability, business continuity, data protection, zero administration, and familiar tools.
IT Governance ensures that your organization is able to achieve its goals through an effective and efficient use of IT. It does this by creating clarity between your business goals and IT projects. Azure Policy is a service in Azure that you use to create, assign and, manage policies. These policies enforce different rules and effects over your resources, to make sure those resources stay compliant with your corporate standards and service level agreements.
Azure helps IT Professionals to build a scalable infrastructure to their needs. It reduces costs for the overall IT platform and allows you to extend your environment very quickly whenever necessary. New virtual machines can be setup in minutes, while giving you the flexibility, scalability and high availability that you require. The cost of the IT infrastructure is reduced because you only pay for what you really use. On top of that, Azure provides a lot of services to help you monitor and secure your infrastructure, both in the cloud and on-prem.
This course is intended for IT professional technical specialists responsible for implementing and maintaining the IT environment.