An essential resource for implementing and managing a cloud infrastructure in Azure

Serving as a critical resource for anyone responsible for strategizing, architecting, implementing or managing a cloud infrastructure, this book helps you understand what is hybrid IT and how it's applicable (and inevitable) in today's world of emerging cloud. The team of authors focus on the Microsoft concept of a private/public cloud, deploying a private cloud fabric, deploying services, and building a private cloud, as well as integrating it with Microsoft's public cloud to create a cross-premises or public cloud.

• Looks at why hybrid IT is important to a business and what benefits a business can expect by adopting hybrid cloud
• Examines a cloud management platform and discusses why it is necessary
• Walks you through the different kinds of solutions for IT problems that may arise
• Places a focus on considerations for ensuring resiliency, availability, and scalability when designing hybrid solutions to prevent system failure and data loss
• Covers optimizing the performance of the hybrid cloud as well as using tools that help you monitor and manage the performance of the hybrid cloud

Windows Azure Hybrid Cloud helps you gain a better understanding of the hybrid IT environments, why those clouds should be implemented, and how they impact business.

Danny Garber is a lead Windows Azure Solution Architect in the Worldwide Windows Azure Center of Excellence of Microsoft. He leads the Windows Azure discovery and Bring-Your-Own-PoC workshops, application assessments, and architecture design sessions. He speaks at conferences such as TechEd, DevConnections, TechReady and Cloud Summits. Prior to this he helped grow Windows Azure as a lead pre-sales Azure architect within the Office of CTO and Enterprise Services Windows Azure Team. He is the author of Pro Windows Server: AppFabric (APress), has written several magazine articles and whitepapers, and authored the Cloud Services Maturity Model. He is a Microsoft Certified Architect, an IBM Certified Architect, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) in BizTalk Server.

Jamal Malik, Microsoft Corporation, is a Business Solution Architect with Microsoft's Datacenter and Private Cloud Center of Excellence. He is a board certified Architect (CITA-p - IASA Global), has published several papers around migrating to Cloud Solutions, delivers training of Cloud Solutions and Capabilities, and regularly presents at Microsoft events.

Adam Fazio is a Solution Architect for the Datacenter Services Solution and the Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track program. His specialties include Private & Hybrid Cloud, Datacenter, Virtualization, Management & Operations, Storage, Networking, Security, Directory Services, People & Process. In his 14 years in IT, Adam has successfully led strategic projects for Government, Education Sector, and Fortune 100 organizations. Adam is a course instructor, published writer and regular conference speaker on Microsoft Cloud, Datacenter, and Infrastructure solutions.