Microsoft Azure

Understanding Cloud Computing

Iason Prassides

Content Developer, DataCamp

Azure and the market

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Integration with Microsoft products
Benefits from customer loyalty, top-of-mind choice
Market share: 24%

Azure cloud services

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Azure cloud services

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Azure cloud services

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Microsoft Fabric

Integrates various Microsoft solutions for enterprise use
Covers data movement, data science, real-time analytics, business intelligence
A key service offering by Microsoft

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Azure data services

Data Lake Storage (store data before cleaning)

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Azure data services

Data Lake Storage (store data before cleaning)
Stream Analytics (real-time analytics)

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Azure data services

Data Lake Storage (store data before cleaning)
Stream Analytics (real-time analytics)
Machine Learning (train and deploy machine learning models)

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Azure customers

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Azure case study

Organization: Ottawa Hospital

Needs: Cost-effective and secure disaster recovery solution (continue vital operations after a disaster)

Solution:

Microsoft IaaS (secure, scalable environment)
Azure Storage (medical imaging data)
Azure Site Recovery (automatically deploy recovery processes)

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Azure case study

Improvements:

New secure, up-to-date, policy compliant disaster recovery site
Compliant with data privacy regulations
Saved ~50% on disaster recovery costs

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¹ https://customers.microsoft.com/

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Understanding Cloud Computing

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