Cloud Infrastructure and Management Practice Accelerators

Hybrid Cloud Foundation

Hybrid Cloud Foundation offers have been designed to help partners to quickly provide value and become trusted advisors to their customers. These offers include the complete Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Platform: Microsoft Azure, Windows Server, System Center, and key Azure Workloads. These engagements can be offered in any order and should be based on the customers’ needs and the solution that best meets their goals.

Audience: Practice executives, partner consultants, partner architects, and Technical Decision Makers

When to use: During consulting engagements to define, structure, and manage Hybrid Cloud engagements from initial planning to comprehensive enterprise architecture to deployment

Outcome: Build Hybrid Cloud service practices using reliable real-world-tested offers; Deliver repeatable Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure engagements aligned to customer’s business objectives.

Next Steps

1. Review the Hybrid Cloud Foundation offerings below.
2. Download and get familiar with the engagement guidance, tools, and collateral as outlined for each offer.
3. Evaluate Hybrid Cloud Foundation services using the deployment guidance provided.

Azure Hybrid Cloud Foundation

Hybrid Cloud Foundation is a flexible, modular offer designed to help customers identify and implement key cloud scenarios that align with business needs and strategies. This offer relies on the Azure Reference Architecture, guidance developed over thousands of engagements that take into account a range of considerations including subscriptions, storage, network, identity, application architecture, high availability and disaster recovery, automation, management, load balancing, websites, database, analytics and media. This offer is targeted at large enterprise customers ready to make Microsoft Azure an integrated part of their IT strategy and portfolio.

Download and get familiar with the engagement guidance, tools, and collateral

These resources are available below.

LOB Apps in Azure

Dev and Test

This solution helps customers take advantage of Microsoft Azure's scale, elasticity, and per-minute billing to provide more agile and cost effective dev and test environments. The offer is to assist customers with designing a dev & test solution allowing them to balance developer self-service and productivity with standardization and operational control. The offer not only helps design the right Azure topology, but also provides a library of lab automation code that makes it fast and efficient to build and operate complex lab environments in the cloud.

These resources are outlined below (and available separately).

This scenario helps organizations achieve fast and cost effective deployments of SAP landscapes in Azure. This Offering delivers reusable architectures and deep insight into the configuration of Microsoft Azure infrastructure to host several SAP Landscapes within the same Azure subscription.

These resources are outlined below (and available separately).

BI IaaS Scenario

Allow customers to extend SQL on Azure IaaS—includes Business Intelligence (BI) on Windows Azure Virtual Machines.

These resources are available separately:

• Customer Kickoff Presentation
• Customer TDM Presentation
• Engagement Delivery Guide
• Vision and Scope
• Automated Deployment on Microsoft Azure
• Auto Sales Power View Demo
• Consultant Delivery Guide
• Contoso Energy Power View Demo
• Demo Content Pack Setup
• Powerview Sales Model
• Delivery Training Deck

HADR Scenario

Allow customers to extend SQL on Azure IaaS—includes SQL Disaster Recovery and Backup enabling customers to create a server in the cloud that they control and manage providing a robust infrastructure for SQL Server.

These resources are available separately:

• Customer Kickoff Presentation
• Customer BDM Presentation
• Customer TDM Presentation
• Engagement Delivery Guide
• Vision and Scope
• Consultant Delivery Guide
• Demo - Backup and Restore to Azure Blobs
• Demo Server AlwaysOn with Azure VMs
• Demo Log shipping with Azure VMs
• Delivery Training Deck

OLTP IaaS Scenario

These resources are available separately:

• Customer Kickoff Presentation
• Customer TDM Presentation
• Engagement Delivery Guide
• Pre-Engagement Environmental Assessment Questionnaire
• Vision and Scope
• SQL Server Infrastructure Services Scenarios
• Consultant Delivery Guide
• Demo - DB-and-App-on-a-single-VM
• Demo - Hybrid App Delivery Training Deck

Software-Defined-Datacenter

The Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) is focusing on designing and implementing the Fabric and Fabric Management technologies in Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016. The software-defined datacenter enables on-premises IaaS capabilities for those applications/services/workloads that require a private or hybrid cloud fabric due to latency, security, data sovereignty, or regulatory requirements.

These materials include practice guidance to deliver consulting engagements (for architecture workshops, assessments, and proof-of-concepts, and production deployments) with a set of tools and collateral for consistent delivery and value to customers in the architecture, design, deployment, and management of private and hybrid cloud environments. This practice accelerator is designed to target both Enterprises and Service Providers. The SDDC is aligned with the Windows Server Software-Defined Datacenter (WSSD) program and offers.

Download and get familiar with the engagement guidance, tools, and collateral

These resources are available below.

Azure Stack Foundation

This 6-week engagement helps customers and partners take a strategic approach to planning their Azure Stack solution. We address technical and business considerations within an Educate, Build, Plan framework. The Azure Stack Foundation offer specifically targets enterprise and service provider organizations who are working to implement modern applications for the cloud. These new applications will enable the business’s digital transformation. Microsoft Azure Stack helps IT organizations implement the on-premises portion of a true hybrid cloud creating an application platform that enables IT to respond to the business’s needs.

Download and get familiar with the engagement guidance, tools, and collateral

These resources are available below.