Tag: CloudComputing

Does your company use multiple Public Cloud Providers ? Use Azure Cost Management to control your spend

It’s common for enterprises to run workloads on more than one cloud provider; however, adopting a multi-cloud strategy comes with complexities like handling different cost models, varying billing cycles, and different cloud designs that can be difficult to navigate across multiple dashboards and views.

Azure Cost Management now offers cross-cloud support. This is available in preview and can play a critical role in helping you efficiently and effectively managing your organization’s multi-cloud needs. Onboard your AWS costs via an easy-to-use cloud connector to get a single view of your expenditures, so you can analyze and budget for the future in one place.

Analyzing Azure and AWS spend with cost analysis

Get deep insights into your cloud spend with the rich graphic capabilities in cost analysis. Analyze your costs across 18 available dimensions like provider, service name, usage location, availability zones, meter, and tags. Cost analysis provides the flexibility to view granular charges to understand what’s driving costs and anomalies, or high-level views to analyze total and month-over-month costs for one or both of your cloud providers. Learn more about Azure Cost Management cost analysis.

An image of the Azure Cost Management cost analysis page.

Continue at source : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/manage-your-cross-cloud-spend-using-azure-cost-management/

Microsoft cloud IT architecture resources

Bij het ontwerp en de implementatie van (hybride) cloud oplossingen is het altijd verstandig om dicht bij de standaard te blijven en grillige workarounds of maatwerk, daar waar mogelijk, te vermijden.

Een belangrijke bron daarbij zijn zgn referentie architecturen; de bron / basis zoals de oplossing bedoeld is en zoals deze kan intergreren met bestaande omgevingen.

Microsoft heeft een goed overzicht van de hun cloud IT architectuur bronnen :

Microsoft cloud for enterprise architects series

Learn core cloud architecture concepts for Microsoft identity, security, networking, and hybrid. Review prescriptive recommendations for protecting files, identities, and devices when using Microsoft’s cloud. Learn how to deploy a modern and secure desktop with Windows 10 and Office ProPlus.

These architecture tools and posters give you information about Microsoft cloud services, including Office 365, Windows 10, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and hybrid on-premises and cloud solutions. IT decision makers and architects can use these resources to determine the ideal solutions for their workloads and to make decisions about core infrastructure components such as identity and security.

Microsoft 365 enterprise solution series

Bron : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/microsoft-cloud-it-architecture-resources 

Microsoft Hybrid Cloud

Microsoft hybrid cloud is a set of business scenarios that combine a Microsoft cloud platform with an on-premises component. You can use hybrid cloud as a path to migrate your business and its IT needs to the cloud or integrate cloud platforms and services with your existing on-premises infrastructure as part of your overall IT strategy.

This poster tells the cross-cloud story on hybrid cloud architecture and scenarios for Azure, Office 365, Microsoft Intune, and Dynamics 365.

Download poster : here 

Azure solution architectures

Architectures to help you design and implement secure, highly-available, performant and resilient solutions on Azure.

Visit page : Azure solution architectures

Azure IoT Reference architecture

The IoT Architecture Guide aims to accelerate customers building IoT Solutions on Azure by providing a proven production ready architecture, with proven technology implementation choices, and with links to Solution Accelerator reference architecture implementations such as Remote Monitoring and Connected Factory. The document offers an overview of the IoT space, recommended subsystem factoring for scalable IoT solutions, prescriptive technology recommendations per subsystems, and detailed sections per subsystem that explore use cases and technology alternatives.

https://azure.microsoft.com/nl-nl/blog/azure-iot-reference-architecture-update/

Inside Azure datacenter architecture with Mark Russinovich

Een goed en up to date (mei 2019) overzicht van de ontwikkelingen rond MIcrosoft’s Azure datacenters door Mark Russinovich van MIcrosoft.

Join Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, to learn how Microsoft’s Azure enables intelligent, modern and innovative applications at scale in the cloud, on-premises and on the edge. Microsoft Azure has achieved massive, global scale, with more than 50 announced regions consisting of over 100 datacenters, and it is growing fast. It delivers the promise of cloud computing, including high-availability, extreme performance, and security, by custom designing software and hardware to work best together. Mark takes you on a tour of Azure’s datacenter architecture and implementation innovations, describing everything from Azure’s global infrastructure, to how we enable large-scale enterprise scenarios on both cloud and edge, to how we bring quantum computing to real-world scenarios today, and more.

Microsoft Azure in eigen datacenter ? Dat kan met de Microsoft Azure Stack

Op Ignite kondigde Microsoft deze week een nieuw hoofdstuk voor Microsoft Azure aan … de mogelijkheid om een oplossing op basis van de Microsoft Azure Architectuur in het eigen datacenter te implementeren : De Microsoft Azure Stack Architecture

 

The Microsoft Azure Stack brings Azure to any datacenter. It creates an ideal private or hybrid cloud infrastructure with consistent APIs, tools, and shared ecosystem. Only Microsoft delivers a true hybrid infrastructure.

The Microsoft Azure Stack will be available as part of the 2016 wave of products. Those interested in our vision can start the journey by trying the new Azure Portal and Azure Resource Manager, or with Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and the Azure Pack. 

Why the Azure Stack

Given the significant investments Microsoft has made in Azure to support the increasing velocity of business expectations, we are uniquely positioned to bring those learnings to your on-premises datacenters, helping IT transform the role of technology. Microsoft Azure Stack enables you to transition from traditional IT control, towards providing vision and innovation in a services-based approach. Microsoft is providing Azure tools, processes and infrastructure so you can best support your users. Our cloud is the edge of your datacenter; your services can be the edge of our cloud.

Lees verder : Microsoft.com

Microsoft Cloud Roadmaps

De ontwikkelingen en daarmee de nieuwe functies, features, updates en upgrades van de Microsoft Cloud diensten volgen zich in snel tempo op. Inmiddels heeft Microsoft voor zowel Microsoft Azure als voor Office365 een site gemaakt die je inzicht geeft in de laatste en geplande updates :

 

Microsoft Azure

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http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/roadmap/recently-available.aspx 

Microsoft Office365

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http://roadmap.office.com/en-us 

Microsoft 2015 Product Roadmap

op de website van Redmond Channel Partner kwam ik trouwens nog een goed artikel tegen over de 2015 Product Roadmap van Microsoft :

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http://rcpmag.com/articles/2011/02/01/the-2011-microsoft-product-roadmap.aspx

Binnenkort : Microsoft Office Graph #social #collaboration

Learn how Office Graph transforms Office 365 with machine learning and personalized insights. These new insights are derived from each users’ behavior, their relationships to content, topics and one another. See how the tools you use every day will benefit from this intelligence, making sure you’re more proactive and better connected with your network than ever.

Voor aan de muur : Cloud Ecosystem Poster: Microsoft Azure, Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2

 

This document provides a visual reference for understanding key Microsoft private cloud and on-premises cloud technologies. This poster includes information about:

  • Microsoft Azure Services including Service Categories, Compute Services, Data Services, and App Services
  • System Center 2012 R2 including App Controller, Virtual Machine Manager, Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, Service Manager, Orchestrator, Data Protection Manager and Azure Pack
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 including Storage Spaces, Data Deduplication, Resilient File System, SMB Transparent Failover, Storage Quality of Service, Generation 2 Virtual Machines, Online VHDX Resize, Enhanced Session Mode, Live Migration, Failover Clustering, Cluster Shared Volumes, Scale-Out File Server, Shared Virtual Hard Disks, Hyper-V Extensible Switch, Remote Desktop Services, SMB Direct, SMB Multi-channel, and NIC Teaming

This visual reference is available as a complete wall poster.

Download hem hier

Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite : Hybrid Identity Management

De Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite is een veelzijdig oplossing waarmee bedrijven veel uitdagingen rondom consumerization of IT, BYOD en SaaS kunnen adresseren. De suite bevat de volgende Microsoft cloud diensten:

  • Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium
  • Windows Intune
  • Microsoft Azure Rights Management

Met Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium kun je een van de grootste Identity & Access Management vraagstukken adresseren : hoe ga je om met de grote hoeveelheid online gebruikersnamen en wachtwoorden die elke gebruiker heeft ? De volgende video heeft daar goed inzicht in :

 

Nieuwe versie van de Microsoft Azure (IaaS) Cost Estimator Tool beschikbaar

Microsoft heeft afgelopen week een nieuwe versie gepubliceerd van de Microsoft Azure (IaaS) Cost Estimator Tool :

This tool helps customer profile their existing on-premises infrastructure and estimate cost of running it on Azure. This tool is released for United States. During normal operation of this tool, XML files will be downloaded to verify that the latest version is installed and that the latest pricing is used. Download and install this tool if you agree to this functionality

Download de tool : hier

Forester: De Public Cloud Markt groeit exponentieel

Een nieuw (betaald) rapport van IT analyst Forrester geeft inzicht in nieuwe groeicijfers van de Public Cloud markt. Deze markt zal in 2020 de $191 Miljard dollar bereiken; dit was $ 58 Miljard in 2013 volgens Forrester.

Public cloud services continue to drive big changes in the markets for software, hardware, and IT outsourcing, while providing a foundation for age of the customer innovations. How much and when will cloud transform these markets? In this research, we project that the public cloud market will reach $191 billion by 2020, from 2013’s total of $58 billion. Cloud applications, at $133 billion in 2020, are leading this growth; cloud platforms will generate $44 billion in revenue by 2020; and cloud business services will come in at $14 billion. Much of this growth is initiated by line of business and marketing and strategy leads, but CIOs and their technology management organizations are increasingly expected to be driving these initiatives. For CIOs, the message is clear: "Shift into the driver seat, or others will."

Bron : Forrester.com