Microsoft Azure Use Cases For Everyone: Ebook
Microsoft Azure Use Cases For Everyone: Ebook
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It starts with the basics.
By moving to Azure, you’ll be able to innovate in new ways by adopting a cloud operations based model on
infrastructure as a service (IaaS) technologies. Additionally, you’ll be able to take advantage of further opportunities
for innovation by modernizing with fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) offerings.
But, before you begin down a cloud adoption path, it’s important to first establish a strong technical foundation to
support your long-term cloud strategy. With that foundation in place, you can then build more advanced solutions
onto that foundation and digitally transform your business.
To that end, this eBook covers six Microsoft Azure solutions that serve as a strong foundation to the cloud.
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Use Case 1: Hybrid Identity
Almost every Azure solution you will build will connect to a cloud identity and networking baseline. Build a foundation for
your cloud deployments by starting with Hybrid Identity, and Hybrid Networking (Use Case 2). Then, you’re ready to add
more solutions onto your foundation.
Creating and managing user identities can be complicated. ▪ Connect your workforce. Hybrid Identity solutions make it
Businesses need to give their users productive working easier for employees, partners, vendors and customers to
environments, without sacrificing security. They also need to use the apps and data they need from any location. It starts
enable remote work scenarios where employees, vendors, and with single sign-on. Then you can extend the solution with
partners can access internal apps and those in the cloud. That’s VPN Gateway and Azure Networks to create truly hybrid
where Hybrid Identity can help. solutions—like connecting to your existing data centers or
linking together different offices.
Azure Hybrid Identity solutions give you all the tools you need to
ensure your people can access internal or cloud apps and data— ▪ Safeguard business information. With Hybrid Identity
while you get a single, secure platform that’s easy to manage. solutions, you’ll get the security you need with multi-factor
authentication and role-based access. Perfect for hybrid
▪ Simplify access and identity management. With Azure environments, it’s all based on Microsoft security best
Active Directory, you can create and manage all user identities practices.
across your entire business securely from a single location.
Your users get secure, single sign-on to all their resources,
whether apps are on-premises or in the cloud.
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80% of data breaches
can be traced back to
weak passwords.
- Security Magazine
When you use Azure services for your identity management, here’s what you’ll get:
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Use Case 2: Hybrid Networking
Azure Hybrid Networking is a great place to start to prepare your
infrastructure for the cloud while securely connecting branch offices and remote
users to on-premises resources.
▪ Better performance. Slow load times and network latency during peak usage can hinder
SaaS application performance.
Hybrid Networking with Azure connects on-premises, Azure, and multi-cloud resources,
enabling you to manage your entire network using centralized access and routing
policies. Organizations can:
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89% have a multi-
cloud strategy, and
most are taking a hybrid
approach, combining the
use of both public and
private cloud.
As you implement Hybrid Networking, here’s what you’ll get:
Flexera, 2022 State of the Cloud Report
Azure Virtual Network. Azure Virtual Network enables Azure resources, such as VMs, web apps
and databases, to communicate with each other, with users on the internet and with your on-
premises client computers. Think of an Azure Virtual Network as an extension of your on-premises
network with resources that link other Azure resources.
Azure VPN Gateway instances are deployed in a dedicated subnet of the virtual network and enable the following
connectivity:
▪ Connect on-premises data centers to virtual networks through a site-to-site connection.
▪ Connect individual devices to virtual networks through a point-to-site connection.
▪ Connect virtual networks to other virtual networks through a network-to-network connection.
ExpressRoute extends your on-premises network into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity
provider. Connectivity can be from an any-to-any (IP VPN) network, a point-to-point Ethernet network or a virtual cross-connection
through a connectivity provider at a colocation facility. ExpressRoute connections don’t go over the public Internet, which allows brings
more reliability, faster speeds, consistent latencies and higher security than typical connections over the Internet.
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Use Case 3: Azure Backup
Resilient Infrastructure with Azure backup is a compelling next workload. Reduce your on-
premise footprint, cut costs and optimize IT resources by moving backup servers to Azure.
Keeping data backed up is critical for any business. So is being able to recover data in case of
disaster, breach, or employee error. Today, many small- to medium-sized companies are still using
on-premise backup solutions, which can be time-consuming to manage, costly to update—and
still prone to error.
Azure Resilient Infrastructure solutions provide simple, secure back and restore capabilities
for all your data—whether it’s files, folders and disks or virtual machines and databases.
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When you use Azure services for data backup and disaster recovery, here’s what you’ll
get:
Azure Backup. Get a secure, one-click backup solution that is simple to set up and
tailored to your particular storage needs.
▪ Backup for all structured and unstructured data: files, folders, disks, VMs, and
databases
▪ Automated storage management, so you only pay for what you use
Azure Site Recovery. Help your business stay up and running—even during
major outages or faced with threats.
▪ One-click restore for all your Azure Backup data and workloads
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Use Case 4: Azure IaaS
Once you have established a strong hybrid foundation,
it may be time to look at some advanced workloads, like
Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
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478% The ROI achieved by
companies that migrate on-
premises operations to the
cloud.
When you start using Azure to start running your company’s IT
infrastructure in the cloud, here’s what you’ll get: - Forrester TEI of Microsoft Azure Iaas Report
▪ Support for any Linux and Windows apps, SQL databases, and more
Azure Migrate. Discover, assess, right-size and migrate your on-premises VMs to
Azure.
▪ A centralized hub that simplifies moving workloads into the cloud, at your pace
▪ Tools that help you assess workloads before migration, then streamline moving
them
▪ Rich support and guidance for common workloads: servers, data, databases,
web apps and virtual desktops
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Use Case 5: Azure Virtual Desktop
Once you have established a strong hybrid foundation, it may be time
to look at some advanced solutions, like Azure Virtual Desktop.
The pandemic dramatically redefined how and where people work. And there’s no
going back; remote work is here to stay. However, not every employee needs a
company-issued laptop to be productive, yet those laptops can make a company’s
network less secure. And the more remote your employees are—or if you have
seasonal workers—the harder it can be to balance productivity with cost and
security.
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Azure Virtual Desktop: the perfect balance of
productivity, security and cost.
▪ Enable secure remote work. Azure Virtual Desktop is a great way to meet
the demands of a remote or changing workforce because it helps protect
your business and data, while giving employees secure access to consistent
working environments over a wide variety of devices. It’s fast and simple to
set up and includes a wide variety of security controls.
It’s also easy to get started. In fact, if you’re using Microsoft 365, you already
have the licenses you need.
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$149K The average cost
of a data breach for a small-to
medium-sized company.
- PYMTS.com
Use Case 6: Azure Security
Once you have established a strong hybrid foundation, it may
be time to look at some advanced solutions, like Azure Security
Center.
▪ Improve security and compliance. Azure Security Solutions offer robust protection
that helps secure your cloud and on-premises resources against malware, viruses, and
DDoS attacks. You’ll get the ability to continually assess how secure and compliant your
business is—along with the ability to easily make adjustments and fix issues.
▪ Get protection across your business. With Azure Security Solutions, you can help
safeguard all resources, whether they’re servers, storage, databases, networks, applications,
or firewalls. These solutions are all backed by Microsoft threat intelligence, so they work
together seamlessly. And because they’re Azure-native and highly scalable, you can easily
extend services as you need them.
▪ Simplify security management. Azure Security Solutions make it simpler to manage security
across your organization. You’ll get a single portal, where you can centralize security policies and
easily extend security to connected cloud resources. And advanced AI and automation are built in,
so you can more quickly identify threats.
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Azure Security Solutions deliver next-generation security.
Here’s how to get started with Azure security:
Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Understand your current security situation and get
recommendations to improve it.
▪ A single portal to view and manage security and compliance
▪ A generated Secure Score to understand the security and health of your systems
▪ Detailed recommendations on how to improve your security
Azure Firewall. A cloud-native, next generation firewall to protect your Azure Virtual
Network resources.
▪ A scalable and highly available firewall-as-a-service
▪ Threat intelligence-based filtering with near real-time alerts
▪ Intrusion detection and prevention to continuously monitor and block malicious
activities
Azure DDoS Protection. Protect your applications from Distributed Denial of Service
(DDoS) attacks.
▪ Turnkey defense for always-on traffic monitoring and automatic mitigation
▪ Adaptive tuning to learn application traffic patterns over time
▪ Multi-layered protection and detailed attack analytic reporting
Getting started is simple. We recommend you begin with Defender for Cloud
and go from there.
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Choosing the Right Azure Migration
Partner
Migrating to the cloud can get complicated quickly. What workloads should you move
to the cloud first? What infrastructure needs to remain on-premises? And which
additional offerings can help you gain the competitive edge you’re looking for?
Even the most capable IT teams can’t always answer these questions, nor do they
have the bandwidth to research their options and perform the implementation.
With our hands-on Microsoft experience, OneNeck is the Cloud Service Provider
(CSP) with practical answers to the important questions you are asking. But it goes
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So, don’t go it alone. Now’s the time to accelerate your cloud journey,
and our team is here to help you get started with Microsoft Azure
and beyond.
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