Designing a Hybrid Cloud in Azure

Pluralsight

Course Summary

Start designing a hybrid cloud in Azure and come up with a working business model for your hosting solution. This course walks you through the design process, cost estimation, and concludes with a sample business case.

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Course Description

If you're an IT architect or admin, you can learn the skills you will need to design a hybrid cloud in Azure and put a business model together. This course will cover what you need to know so that you can put your design and business case together. First, you will take a set of requirements and create a high level design. Next, this design will be used to estimate the costs of hosting the solution in Azure. Finally, you will bring everything together and figure out how you would approach a business case. By the end of the course, you will have a much better idea of how to design and host your hybrid cloud.

Course Description

If you're an IT architect or admin, you can learn the skills you will need to design a hybrid cloud in Azure and put a business model together. This course will cover what you need to know so that you can put your design and business case together. First, you will take a set of requirements and create a high level design. Next, this design will be used to estimate the costs of hosting the solution in Azure. Finally, you will bring everything together and figure out how you would approach a business case. By the end of the course, you will have a much better idea of how to design and host your hybrid cloud.

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Course Syllabus

Course Overview
- 1m 6s

—Course Overview 1m 6s

Introduction and Getting Started
- 22m 58s

—Overview 3m 45s
—Our Cloud Challenge 2m 39s
—Cloud Models 5m 39s
—Cloud Deployment Options 3m 57s
—Cloud Benefits 5m 18s
—Summary 1m 37s

Before Starting the Design
- 17m 3s

—Gather the Right Information 1m 56s
—Users and Their Impact on the Design 5m 26s
—What Else Influences the Design? 4m 40s
—Security and Compliance 2m 32s
—Summary 2m 26s

Creating a High Level Design
- 46m 3s

—Bringing Everything Together 2m 53s
—Network Design 7m 29s
—Storage 16m 15s
—Virtual Machines 8m 5s
—Identity - Active Directory 2m 43s
—User Access 4m 44s
—Security 1m 48s
—Wrap-up 2m 3s

Turning the Design into a Cost Estimate
- 30m 43s

—Introduction and Goals 2m 40s
—How Azure Billing Works 2m 2s
—Price Calculation in Action 20m 36s
—Sample Cost Saving Tips 4m 14s
—Summary 1m 9s

Bringing Everything Together
- 10m 20s

—The Art of Persuasion 5m 4s
—Sample Business Case 5m 16s