Cloud Data Design, Orchestration, and Management Using Microsoft Azure: Master and Design a Solution Leveraging the Azure Data Platform

by Francesco Diaz, Roberto Freato

Overview

Use Microsoft Azure to optimally design your data solutions and save time and money. Scenarios are presented covering analysis, design, integration, monitoring, and derivatives.
This book is about data and provides you with a wide range of possibilities to implement a data solution on Azure, from hybrid cloud to PaaS services. Migration from existing solutions is presented in detail. Alternatives and their scope are discussed. Five of six chapters explore PaaS, while one focuses on SQL Server features for cloud and relates to hybrid cloud and IaaS functionalities.

What You'll Learn

• Know the Azure services useful to implement a data solution
• Match the products/services used to your specific needs
• Fit relational databases efficiently into data design
• Understand how to work with any type of data using Azure hybrid and public cloud features
• Use non-relational alternatives to solve even complex requirements
• Orchestrate data movement using Azure services
• Approach analysis and manipulation according to the data life cycle
  

Who This Book Is For
Software developers and professionals with a good data design background and basic development skills who want to learn how to implement a solution using Azure data services

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484236154
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	06/28/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Francesco Diaz joined Insight in 2015 and is responsible for the cloud solutions&services area for a few countries in the EMEA region. In his previous work experience, Francesco worked at Microsoft for several years, in Services, Partner, and Cloud&Enterprise divisions. He is passionate about data and cloud, and he speaks about these topics at events and conferences.
Roberto Freato works as a freelance consultant for tech companies, helping to kick off IT projects, defining architectures, and prototyping software artifacts. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVP award for seven years in a row and has written books about Microsoft Azure. He loves to participate in local communities and speaks at conferences during the year.

Table of Contents

1 Working with Azure Database Services Platform.- 2 Working with SQL Server on Hybrid Cloud and Azure IaaS.- 3 Working with NoSQL Alternatives.- 4 Orchestrate Data with Azure Data Factory.- 5 Working with Azure Data Lake Store and Azure Data Lake Analytics.- 6 Working with In-Transit Data and Analytics.