Leveraging Azure Cloud - Knowing What to Use and When to Use It

Whether you are an Azure novice or seasoned professional, join us as we walk you through a customer’s Azure journey to learn and we'll discuss the ‘why and when’ to use Azure services and to help you avoid the pitfalls of public cloud management. Enjoy door prizes, complimentary food & beverage, networking and a lively group discussion. Confirm your seat today!

Discuss the customer’s Azure journey:
Leveraging the Azure Toolset and Lessons Learned: The “what” and “why” used to solve business problems

Transformation:
Using Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery to convert on-prem and/or hosted IaaS workloads.

Hybrid Solutions
Azure ExpressRoute: What it is and what benefits it can provide in migrations and hybrid solutions
*Datacenter/ISP exchanges that enable the service
*Speed, security and SLA
*Premium vs. Standard
Azure VPN Gateways: The VPN SKU varieties and benefits Azure provides
Azure ExpressRoute with VPN failover

Azure Networking principles and options:
*Azure Network Security Groups and ACLs
*Azure User Defined Routes
*Azure routing domains and VNet to VNet peering

Azure Storage:
*What are Azure Blob, Azure Page, Azure File Storage accounts?
*What is Azure Managed Disks and how and when to leverage them?
*Storage Encryption at-rest and in-transit

Security and Compliance Controls:
*Where does Azure’s compliance control responsibilities stop and the customer’s start?
*The Azure Platform canvas with the customer or solutions provider as the security artist.
*Leveraging the Azure Marketplace for third-party next gen network and security solutions
*Penetration testing
*Azure Security Center

Tips & Tricks: DIY vs. Cloud Services Provider - knowing when to engage others. The rapid pace in which Azure releases services to the Azure Cloud is a beautiful thing. The drawback is that it’s extremely challenging to keep up with adherence to performance, compliance and budget. Learn when to seek out a cloud services provider that can give you an objective perspective and who specializes in all things private, hybrid and public cloud.

About the sponsors:
Concerto Cloud Services (DXC Concerto) provides fully managed private, public and hybrid cloud solutions. Concerto is a trusted advisor to customers and channel partners seeking to make IT easier, manage risk and reduce operational challenges. Concerto was built on a rich legacy of application expertise, innovation and a relentless pursuit of service excellence.