Microsoft hopes to make hybrid clouds less scary with more extensive testing
February 9, 2015
Grazed from TechWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknas.
New documentation shows how to configure basic hybrid cloud testing environments, which use a mixture of public and on-site computing resources, and how to run a SharePoint intranet farm as well as other applications on top of it. These testing environments use a local Internet connection and a public IP address to set up a functioning, cross-site Azure virtual network.
Once the testing environments have been configured, IT staff can use them to begin application development, experiment with IT workloads, and gauge the performance of VPN connections, Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday. Even if the hybrid cloud concept is easy to understand, taking the leap to actually building one isn’t always an easy decision. More in-depth testing increases the chance of a successful roll-out…
That Microsoft wants to make the most of its strong position in enterprise data centers, hoping to move customers to Azure, has been apparent for some time. The strategy is a way for Microsoft to differentiate its offerings from Amazon Web Services, which has a more extensive public cloud…
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