October 2015
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
10h 19m
English
CHAPTER 4
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Planning Your Azure Deployment
Planning Concepts
Chapters 1 and 2 introduced the different Azure services as well as the business drivers for considering Azure as part of an organization’s IT portfolio. As with most IT initiatives, the main business driver is cost, which includes tangible and intangible costs.
Previous chapters focused primarily on intangible costs, such as service-level agreements (SLAs), agility and scalability, disaster recovery (DR), high availability (HA), and security. These are important concepts, and, in some cases, an organization may have a real number associated with such costs. For example, some organizations ...