Migrating to Azure with Christos Matskas
How do you migrate to Azure? Carl and Richard talk to Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Christos Matskas about his work helping companies move workloads to Azure. The conversation starts out focused on what you can move to Azure - which is less a technical problem and more of a political one. Christos discusses Azure Site Recovery as a sort of gateway drug for getting organizations into Azure - much cheaper than running a backup data center, Site Recovery keeps images of all your active servers so that you can switch over to them in a disaster. And then the catalog is opened up, there are a ton of products in Azure, which ones do you use? Lots of great discussion on the various approaches to moving to the cloud!
Guests:
Christos Matskas
Christos Matskas is a software developer, dad, blogger, husband, speaker and all-around geek. He currently works as a Developer Advocate for Microsoft Identity helping developers and teams leverage the power of the identity and cloud. Before joining Microsoft, he was a successful entrepreneur collaborating with companies such as MarkIT, Lockheed Martin and Barclays. He's been building software for over 15 years and he's a passionate Open Source advocate. He contributes regularly to OSS projects and works closely with the developer community to make the space bigger and better.
Links:
- Ketogenic Forums http://ketogenicforums.com
- Discourse http://www.discourse.org/
- Global Azure Bootcamp http://global.azurebootcamp.net/
- Azure Hybrid Cloud https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/cloud-platform/hybrid-cloud
- Azure Stack https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/
- RunAs Radio on Azure Stack http://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/493
- Microsoft Operations Management Suite https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/cloud-platform/operations-management-suite
- Azure DevTest Labs https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devtest-lab/
- Azure Site Recovery https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/site-recovery/
- Puppet Labs https://puppet.com/
- Azure Logic Apps https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/logic-apps/
- Azure Functions https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/
- Azure Service Fabric https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/service-fabric/
- Desired State Configuration https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/dsc/overview