Why You Should Use Azure and Getting Started

This is probably the most important part of the book. Now that the technical capabilities are understood, why should you choose to use Azure and how do you get started? There are many providers of public cloud services, and deciding which one is right for your organization can be challenging. Remember that there are many types of public cloud service (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS), and providers offer one or more of those types. At the start, you likely will have on-premises services, so you need to consider not only the capabilities of the provider but how it can integrate with your on-premises services and management.

Understanding Azure’s Place in the Market

A good place to start to understand the capabilities of providers and their positioning against their competition is to look at the Gartner quadrants. Gartner quadrants are maintained for many types of service, such as on-premises x86 virtualization, cloud IaaS, enterprise application...