An essential resource for implementing and managing a cloud infrastructure in Azure

Serving as a critical resource for anyone responsible for strategizing, architecting, implementing or managing a cloud infrastructure, this book helps you understand what is hybrid IT and how it's applicable (and inevitable) in today's world of emerging cloud. The team of authors focus on the Microsoft concept of a private/public cloud, deploying a private cloud fabric, deploying services, and building a private cloud, as well as integrating it with Microsoft's public cloud to create a cross-premises or public cloud. Looks at why hybrid IT is important to a business and what benefits a business can expect by adopting hybrid cloudExamines a cloud management platform and discusses why it is necessaryWalks you through the different kinds of solutions for IT problems that may arisePlaces a focus on considerations for ensuring resiliency, availability, and scalability when designing hybrid solutions to prevent system failure and data lossCovers optimizing the performance of the hybrid cloud as well as using tools that help you monitor and manage the performance of the hybrid cloud

"Windows Azure Hybrid Cloud" helps you gain a better understanding of the hybrid IT environments, why those clouds should be implemented, and how they impact business.