Introduction

The book you are holding is the result of my 25 years of experience in the IT world, including 20 years of virtualization experience, which started with VMware, Virtual PC, and now Hyper-V, and many years focusing on public cloud solutions, especially Microsoft Azure. My goal for this book is simple: to make you knowledgeable and effective architecting an Azure-based infrastructure. If you look at the scope of Microsoft Azure functionality, a single book would be the size of the Encyclopedia Britannia to cover it, so my focus for this book is the infrastructure-related services, including VMs in Azure, storage, networking, and some complementary technologies. Additionally, the focus is on architecting a solution. I will also show how to automate processes using technologies such as templates and PowerShell/CLI, how to integrate Azure with your on-premises infrastructure to create a hybrid solution, and even how to use Azure as a disaster recovery solution.

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