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Learn about the challenges faced by Azure Stack Service Providers and explore innovative solutions for a successful deployment. Discover insights on technical and organizational hurdles, billing, API integration, and more. Gain valuable experiences to optimize service delivery and enhance customer satisfaction.
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Speaker Mag. Stefan DenningerTeamlead Cloud Solutions, ACPP-CSA, Microsoft RDCommunity Lead #ExpertsLiveATstefan.denninger@acp.at @stefandenninger
Vision ACP hashadsatisfiedcustomers in theDataCenter Business foryears. However, therecentchallengesoftopics such asDevOpsoragile programmingcannotbeoptimallycovered. Therefore, theysought a solutionthatcoversthecloudproperties, but continuestoensuredatamanagement in thecountry. Azure Stack is a perfectplatformforthis, guaranteeingself-service, pay per use and minimal delivery time! In thesessionweshowthechallenges on bothtechnical and organizational side. Weare happy tosharetheseexperiences ...
Evolution of Service Providers Azure Stack a smallcloudforhomeLow latancy - sureaboutlocationPerfectUsage and Billing API!!!truecloud (nohypervisor) - Admin and Tenant Portal Azure Stack just a subsetof Azuresame Subset-Services but laterproductgroupisworkingveryhard, but theteamissmaller :) PerfectforReseller's - but different toDataCenterfasterdeploymentthanDataCenterorganisationchallances - - Service Desk (learning)- PayPerUse (finance)- Service Reporting - integrationtoexistingsystems
Azure Stack The Product itself - young - thingstocome Formanyserviceproviders a newbusinessmodel An earlyadopterproject Like Azure was in thebeginning IaaS first - PaaS Services comingnowmore and more (AKS, OpenShift) Connect totheproductgroup and vendor! To come (future) – somepainpoints Waiting for Backup API Betterbilling / Usagesolutions Network Integration toOnPrem
learnings / challanges forthe OEMs!! True experiancefortheteamsis still little WE took HPE asouryearslongbestpartnerforthatproject Our internal work: DataCenter Automation forprovisionbecauseof API Access only, yourealize a lotofmanualsteps in yourprocess
usecases Gartners Mode 1 and Mode 2 Mixed Mode isthebest SQL, HANA, DBs on Prem and mixedwith volatile App Servers on Top of Azure Stack Offering fixedproducts (ARM-Templates) for SMB market in Austria (DC, SQL, APP, RDS) DevOps Teams working on volatile Environments Forenterpriseswithnewpurcacedcompaniesusedtocloudmodel (M&A) Making partnersto MSPs
typicalsetup - hybrid • Connectiviy – VPN / ExpressRoute • Compute – Iaas (VMs / Disk / vNIC / NSG) • Monitoring – Monitor • Backup – Recovery Vault • Security – Identity / Access / Logs / SIEM / … • Update Management – included!! • JIT – VM Access (AddOn)
typicalsetup - hybrid https://blog.denninger.at/2019/site-2-site-vpn-pfsense-to-azure-stack/
references Referenzen Windows Azure – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in Whatis Windows Azure - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poDRw_Xi3Aw Azure Demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V8HikBP1vQ Azure Blog - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/blog/ Blogs:Hannes Lagler-Gruener – http://cloudblogger.at Stefan Denninger – https://blog.denninger.at
ACP workshopoffering • cloudreadiness • real cloudstrategy • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Workshops - LEVEL 1 (deepdive / HandsOn) - DevOps / Automation / PaaS / Onboarding / … • proofofconceptwithyourapps - real worldworkloads i.e. SAP on Azure / Azure Stack
keytakeaway • Planning, Planning, Planning, …. • Start with a partner • Microsoft Azure a true hybrid cloudsolution • Microsoft & ACP partneringtogetherforbestdelivery • reducedrunningcostwithmanagedservicesby ACP Wearelearningdaybydaytodeliveythatexperiencetoourenterprisecustomers - integration and managing
Thank you! • Mag. Stefan DenningerTeamlead Cloud Solutions, ACPP-CSA, Microsoft RDCommunity Lead #ExpertsLiveATstefan.denninger@acp.at @stefandenninger please find slide deck here ->https://bit.ly/2ERGVLK