The Datanauts are joined by Jennelle Crothers, IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft, to discuss infrastructure-as-a-service in the Microsoft public cloud, Azure.

In this episode we explore what Azure is, how it compares to other IaaS offerings, and when to use it vs. a SaaS offering like Office 365. We also get nerdy, talking about the orchestration and automation options in Azure. Our discussion concludes making sense of the different service options within Azure. For example, does it make sense to keep running our own domain controllers, or should we be using Azure’s Active Directory Domain Services instead?

Links

Microsoft Azure Resources

Azure Roadmap

Azure QuickStart Templates

Azure Products by Region

Azure Architecture Center

Follow Jennelle Crothers

* Jennelle’s blog

* Jennelle on Twitter @jkc137