The Path to Agile Cloud Adoption with Microsoft Azure

Everyone is talking about digital transformation, but what does it really mean?

In this session, Mark Johnson, Solution Architect at 10th Magnitude and Robert Abou-chacra, Global Enterprise Cloud Architect at a multinational consulting firm, will share their experiences about how they have transformed organizations around cloud, and specifically Microsoft Azure.

Through one company’s journey to the cloud, learn how cloud paths vary for different organizations and teams based on goals, priorities and timelines.

Ryan Lee, Cloud Consultant at 10th Magnitude, and contributor to the DC/OS project at Mesosphere, demos how to install DC/OS on Azure, how to get frameworks like Spark and Kafka up and running with a single command in the UI or CLI, and how easy it is to run containers at large scale.

Cloud Solution Architect Mark Hanson discusses Azure Active Directory B2C (AAD B2C), a comprehensive cloud identity management solution for consumer-facing web and mobile applications. The far-reaching, highly-secure service scales to hundreds of millions of consumer identities to keep your applications, your business and your customers protected.

In this whiteboard video, 10th Magnitude VP of Cloud Solutions Brian Blanchard discusses Identity Management as a Service (IDMaaS) using Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). More specifically, Azure AD B2B and B2C, how the two can simplify your application identity management, as well as the differences between the services.

DevOps vs. NoOps. Capulets vs. Montagues. The debate has reached Shakespearean proportions, but unlike the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, peaceful coexistence is nigh. Learn the benefits of both methodologies and how to apply them within your organization harnessing the power of Microsoft Azure.

Join 10th Magnitude Cloud Automation Engineer Chris Nagel and Stackify CEO Matt Watson as they discuss the evolution of the two schools of thought, as well as the roles played by developers and sys admins in the process. Whether you choose the DevOps or NoOps route, you’ll leave our one-act play with a host of tools, use cases and best practices.

Building a powerful infrastructure for your business isn’t about buying big, expensive boxes. Virtualizing your data center with Microsoft Azure and running it from software enhances your operational efficiency, agility, cost optimization, scalability and security.

You can manage resources holistically—with greater flexibility and increased resilience—by delivering storage, compute and networking resources as a shared, elastic resource pool.

Agile cloud adoption is changing the way enterprise IT manages its infrastructure and deploys applications—but how do you get there and where do you begin?

Join 10th Magnitude Vice President of Cloud Solutions Brian Blanchard, along with Cloud Solution Architect Mark Hanson to discuss paths to agile cloud adoption for your organization.

Discussion topics include:

-Competitive advantages of agile cloud adoption
-Azure migration best practices (methodology, architecture, planning, etc.)
-Demo of 10th Magnitude’s proprietary Azure Migration and Azure Consumption Dashboards

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Like peanut butter and chocolate or bacon and eggs, Chef and Microsoft Azure just go better together. Join Corey Wagehoft of 10th Magnitude and Andre Elizondo of Chef for this live webinar to learn how Chef and Azure can help your organization accelerate its adoption of DevOps practices. Combining Azure’s cloud services with Chef’s automation capabilities can make you faster, more flexible and better able to deliver value to customers.

Join the webinar to learn:
• What makes Chef and Azure a powerful combo, and how to decide whether they’re the right fit for your organization
• How Chef and Azure enable DevOps practices and benefits
• A real-world example of how one company uses Chef and Azure to automate the configuration and maintenance of hundreds of servers
• How to get started with Chef on Azure

Over the past year Microsoft has introduced major new disaster recovery capabilities in Azure. Services like Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup make it easy to replicate on-premises workloads to the cloud and implement a true hybrid cloud solution.

Join Craig Rayome, Practice Director for Cloud Infrastructure Solutions at 10th Magnitude and learn how your organization can use Azure to extend your datacenter, quickly recover from failures and easily scale to meet user demand. You will learn:

• Azure’s DR capabilities, cost, and offerings for on premise workloads to cloud and hybrid workloads
• The key DR services in Azure and how they work, delivering availability on demand
• Azure DR use cases—where have other companies achieved success?
• Tips for a successful Azure implementation

DevOps promises to increase the velocity, quality and cost-effectiveness of software delivery. But how do you start to implement the types of changes that quickly reduce the cost and complexity of your on-going IT operations?

To find out, join Brian Blanchard, Vice President of Cloud Solutions at 10th Magnitude and learn why cloud is the catalyst that can help your organization quickly unlock the value of DevOps. You will learn:

• Which four key DevOps components are necessary to start adding value right away
• Why the flexibility of cloud is a natural fit for DevOps
• How to use public cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure to jumpstart your DevOps transformation

Many companies that initially struggled to achieve the full potential of DevOps have employed cloud to make their transition successful. Brian will share best practices drawn from 10th Magnitude’s work helping customers combine cloud implementation with DevOps adoption.