Klein - Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

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First published: August 2017

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Markus Klein has been working as a head of CoE hybrid cloud on Microsoft technology for about 20 years now (and specifically with Microsoft cloud technology for the last 15 years), starting with System Center, Service Provider Foundation, KATAL, Azure Pack, Azure, and now Azure Stack. In 2011 he founded a cloud community and is responsible with co-founders on Azure Meetup Ruhrgebiet und Azure Meetup Mnsterland. He has been recognized as an MVP in Cloud and Datacenter management for the sixth year in a row. He speaks at Microsoft conferences (starting in 2002 at TechEd Germany) and you can find him mostly at the Microsoft conferences in Europe and abroad. Twitter: #Dr_Azurestack.

Susan Roesner is a cloud architect with expertise in a wide range of technologies and industries (public and private), including Fortune 500 organizations. Since 2009, she has been working in Microsoft virtualization and Microsoft System Center technology, IT management consulting, focusing on cloud solutions for on-premise enterprise customers as well as service providers in addition to compliance aspects.

Before joining Wortmann AG in 2017, she worked as an IT architect consultant, in the financial sector, and in compliance/IT security, working on projects such as SOX and ISMS implementations, on compliance audits (internal and external), and compliance policy/process creation.

Mag. Stefan Denninger is a senior cloud architect with a 20 years experience in running IT. In the last few years, he has focused on Hybrid Cloud Solutions because these are the solutions that are most complex and where there is maximum variety.

This is the field where he feels comfortable. As he started with networking staff like configuring Cisco Routers and later with MS Biztalk Server bringing Business Processes to modern environments, the bandwidth is perfect for Hybrid Solutions.

The latest projects were all based on Microsoft Azure and local Environments such as Azure Pack or even now on Azure Stack.

His Twitter handle is @stefandenninger.

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Welcome to this book. Azure Stack is one of the most important and interesting products of Microsoft today and is the future as it brings Azure and Azure technologies to your data center if you are either an enterprise or service provider. You can use the same methodology, processes, and concepts that you have already developed for public Azure and reuse them in your Azure Stack data center. As Azure Stack comes as an integrated system, there is not much implementation time; you will just have to add the hardware to your data center and connect it to your network, and you can start adding your services to it right now . As the magic technology of Azure and Azure Stack relies on Azure Resource Manager, there is no need to think differently; you would just have to think the same as with Azure, and you will be successful.