www.IGCM.com/eBook July 2015 Buildi ng Your Cloud Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure Five High Value IaaS Scenarios for Your Business Brian Bourne Building Your Cloud Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure Building Your Cloud Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure Five High Value IaaS Scenarios for Your Business An eBook by Brian Bourne, President, New Signature Canada Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Cloud and Infrastructure as a Service .......................................................... 3 2. Cloud Computing: State of the Union .................................................................................... 5 Defining Cloud ....................................................................................................................... 5 Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud ........................................................................................... 5 IaaS, PaaS and SaaS ............................................................................................................ 6 Benefits of Moving IT Infrastructure to the Cloud .................................................................. 7 Cost Comparison: IaaS and On-Premise .............................................................................. 8 Moving to a cloud-first business world ................................................................................ 11 3. Getting Started with Azure IaaS .......................................................................................... 12 Overview of Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform .................................................................... 12 How Azure fits in a cloud-first business world ..................................................................... 13 Choosing a Workload to Move ............................................................................................ 14 4. Azure Hands-On: Five Scenarios for High Value Deployment ............................................ 16 Scenario One: Extend your Datacenter with Azure Storage ............................................... 16 Scenario Two: Extend your Datacenter with Virtual Network and Site-to-Site VPN ........... 20 Scenario Three: Extend your Datacenter with Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery ....... 22 Scenario Four: Virtual Machines: Using Azure for On-Demand Development and Test .... 24 Scenario Five: Single Sign-On with Azure Active Directory: Scenarios and Benefits ......... 27 5. Azure Resources ................................................................................................................. 30 6. Using Azure with Cloud Management ................................................................................. 31 Infrastructure Guardian Cloud Management ....................................................................... 31 7. Conclusion ........................................................................................................................... 33 8. Appendix .............................................................................................................................. 35 About the Author .................................................................................................................. 35 About New Signature ........................................................................................................... 35 About Infrastructure Guardian ............................................................................................. 36 IGCM for Azure .................................................................................................................... 36 About TAG:IF ....................................................................................................................... 37 References .......................................................................................................................... 38 www.IGCM.com/eBook 2 Building Your Cloud Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure Building Your Cloud Infrastructure with Azure Five High Value IaaS Scenarios for Your Business 1. Introduction: Cloud and Infrastructure as a Service The cloud is here to stay. With the market for cloud solutions growing fast, most enterprises are now using some kind of cloud business solution somewhere in their organization - sometimes without the knowledge of the IT department. Market researchers from IDC predict worldwide spending on cloud IT infrastructure will “grow by 21% year over year to $32 billion in 2015, accounting for approximately 33% of all IT infrastructure spending, which will be up from about 28% in 2014.”1 IDC Canada’s David Senf expects cloud adoption in North America alone to accelerate to $79 billion in 20182. In May 2015 Analysts from Gartner said that global spending on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) “is expected to reach almost US$16.5 billion in 2015, an increase of 32.8 percent from 2014, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2014 to 2019 forecast at 29.1 percent.”3 There’s no doubt that cloud has arrived in the enterprise. But it's only just beginning to show real value to organizations beyond early adopters. This eBook gives you an overview of cloud computing basics and benefits, and walks you through five high-value, real-life deployment scenarios based on Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform for business. We have consulted research and other external information for this book, but a lot of it is based on our own, hands-on experience helping Canadian organizations get started in the cloud. I am the founder of a Toronto-based professional services firm with almost two decades of experience designing, deploying and operating Microsoft infrastructure technologies on premise and in the cloud. Recently this company became the Canadian operations of New Signature, the 2014 Microsoft US Partner of the Year. I also used Azure to start Infrastructure Guardian, a managed service for enterprise-grade systems and cloud management that is now a New Signature service offering. In our customer engagements with New Signature we see a steadily increasing interest in moving key IT scenarios to the cloud. At the same time, there is still a reluctance to trust cloud solutions for core scenarios and, for example, a lack of confidence in security and privacy requirements. Thankfully, the advancement of cloud solutions is progressing at a rapid pace. www.IGCM.com/eBook 3 Building Your Cloud Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure Many concerns about the cloud are no longer valid and, with the right kind of guidance, transitioning to the cloud has become significantly easier. When we look at the evolution of cloud computing, not only is it in the process of transforming how IT is managed in the enterprise, it also transforms the vendors delivering technology solutions to the enterprise. Microsoft is certainly the most prominent technology company changing from a traditional software vendor to a leader in what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls the "cloud-first, mobile-first business world". Azure is a cloud platform and a cloud operating system that empowers enterprises looking to move some or all of their business to the cloud. The focus of the eBook is to provide a hands-on guide for Microsoft Azure and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - how IT departments can deliver cloud computing infrastructure as an on-demand managed service to their business. IaaS is only one category within the range of cloud solutions, but it is the one that lays the foundation for everything else. We will leave Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) for future books. There are also other vendors with large and comprehensive cloud offerings. But in our day-to-day work helping our customers we are seeing how using Azure comes with huge integration and transition benefits. We will outline these in this eBook and provide best practices on how to create a roadmap for smart cloud integration and getting your IT infrastructure ready for a cloud-first business world. www.IGCM.com/eBook 4 Building Your Cloud Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure 2. Cloud Computing: State of the Union Defining Cloud Everybody in IT is talking about cloud computing, and it can get a little confusing. It seems every IT executive, IT professional, vendor, pundit, marketer and journalist has their own definition of cloud computing. And if you go up to C-level executives, there is still a broader lack of understanding. Microsoft Canada commissioned a 2014 survey concluding that 90 per cent of Canadian C-suite executives “are not familiar with what cloud computing means”4. I believe the definition of cloud computing by the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology is accurate, and a good one to use: "Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction."5 Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud Breaking down the definition of cloud into core elements Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud can be a little trickier. I sent out a survey in spring of 2014 to Canadians in IT and associated roles to find out their definitions. What I got back was a mixture of scary, funny and enlightened responses. If anything, it showed us the importance of moving beyond the hype around cloud, and making hands-on training and education for cloud solutions available. Based on the survey responses,