Azure Stack HCI becomes a true cloud solution, managed from Microsoft Azure. With the use of Azure Arc, organizations connect Azure Stack HCI to Microsoft Azure to enable cloud management and governance capabilities such as VM deployment to on-premises, role-based access control (RBAC), Azure Policy, resource tagging and much more. Find out more on our dedicated page.
Hybrid Cloud is able to offer an IT infrastructure that feels familiar, but with the ability to scale indefinitely and leveraging new cloud technologies. A hybrid cloud combines the benefits of both the public and the private cloud.
Microsoft Azure has many data centers across the world. The size of these data centers is immense and allows Microsoft customers to scale up and down as needed. To achieve this, it is not a requirement that the entire infrastructure is present in Microsoft Azure. By means of the right design, it is possible to provide services from a combination of the on-premises environment as well as the public cloud.
Microsoft Azure data centers are required to meet high-quality certifications. In spite of this, organizations may be required to keep management of data confined to their own geography, governed by its country?s law and regulations. This requirement can be fully covered by Azure Stack, Microsoft’s hybrid cloud solution. For example, Microsoft’s solutions make it possible to run database clusters on-premises and web frontends in the cloud. This preserves the data in-house and maintains the advantage of cloud scalability; best of both worlds.
Will your company be up-and-running again after a full power outage has occurred in your datacenter? Microsoft’s disaster recovery solutions provide this kind of continuity after a disaster has struck the datacenter. No costly investment is needed for an additional datacenter because the public cloud can function as a cost-effective stand-in for your primary datacenter. Services will be standby and ready to take over in the case of an emergency. We’ll help customers prepare a Disaster Recovery Plan and we?re ready to execute it in close communication with their IT team. Business continuity has become close to a commodity but requires a group of experts to fully prepare and execute successfully.
The latest developments show an interesting trend; the ability to implement the cloud model on systems that are not in the public cloud. Azure Arc makes it possible to manage systems in its own data center through policies created in Microsoft Azure. This allows a policy to be executed in the IT environment, irrespective of in what location it is active.
Kubernetes is an open-source management system for containers. This system enables deployment of applications, scalability and integrated management of containers. Kubernetes offers an abstraction layer on top of physical hosts. Because of this, application developers no longer have to deal with resource management and high availability as Kubernetes fully takes care of this. A Kubernetes cluster is the foundation of the company?s critical applications and is independent of the infrastructure on which it is installed. That doesn?t mean that this infrastructure is unimportant in attaining a high level of availability. Containers will be deployed to the most suitable physical host that has proper connections to persistent storage. Innovations in the latest version of Windows Server have given Microsoft hybrid cloud solutions the ability to act as an ideal foundation for Kubernetes clusters.
With the arrival of Windows Server 2019, it is possible to use the ‘Windows Subsystem for Linux? (WSL). This makes it possible to have Windows and Linux containers active on the same container-host.
Kubernetes ensures the orchestration of application roll-out using containers. Because a Kubernetes cluster is independent of the hardware, it can also use different types of infrastructure. This flexibility allows a Kubernetes cluster of mission-critical applications to be spread out across multiple Azure Stack environments.
Do you want to regain governance of your IT environment within an organization? At Splitbrain Managed Operations, your IT infrastructure is in the hands of specialists, day and night. These specialists take care of keeping mission-critical applications available. Due to the standardized building blocks, they fully master the environment, applying their experience to efficient management and monitoring practices. Don?t let your business-critical infrastructure be managed by generalists or inexperienced admins. Make sure you hire the right team for the right job!
Wouldn?t it be great if you could call an expert any time you need one? Our Expert Desk, consisting of knowledgeable specialists, is available to answer your questions. You?ll always have access to that skilled semi-colleague to spar with.
Periodic monitoring of the company’s infrastructure is important to ensure business continuity. Splitbrain specialists are happy to check the existing infrastructure to ensure that the latest best practices have been followed. Based on their findings, a report with clear recommendations and action points is prepared. Because Splitbrain specialists (some are MVP) are in close contact to Microsoft program managers, they?re the first to know about new best-practices and important patches. Urgent updates and modifications will be applied as soon as possible.
Periodic updates are important to keep an infrastructure safe and reliable. As part of Managed Operations, we are able to take care of this. Updates are first extensively tested on our own test environments before we release them for installation to our customers.
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