{"id":10327,"date":"2018-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threecloud.wpengine.com\/post\/how-to-get-your-developers-using-azure\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T14:25:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T21:25:44","slug":"how-to-get-your-developers-using-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/resources\/how-to-get-your-developers-using-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Your Developers Using Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">You know the talk out there, everyone is moving to the cloud and people are looking at Azure to get there. But many have concerns with going to the cloud or the unknown things around Azure. That\u2019s why we created this blog series. Today, I want to tell you why I think it\u2019s critical to help your development teams leverage Azure, which will help you as an organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>First, there are 3 things Azure brings to you as a business and for your teams:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0 You can learn new things quickly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can go into Azure, turn on a few features and work with them to try them out. On the contrary, to learn to work and interact with Hadoop infrastructure, for example, you\u2019d have to take the time to set up a bunch of clusters. If your team is looking to take advantage of something new like containers or NoSQL, they can try these out in Azure without investing in infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0 It\u2019s good prep for when you want to go to the cloud.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bottom line \u2013 it\u2019s different in the cloud. Whether you plan to move to the cloud soon or sometime in the future, you\u2019re going to need to understand how subscriptions and components work and gain knowledge in dealing with interactions and how to work in the cloud. \u00a0Your team having a better understanding is key to your ability to successfully and effectively make the move.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.\u00a0 Breeding creativity within your IT organization and development teams.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Creativity can lead to new business opportunities and improvements to your business. Giving your team the opportunity to jump in and work with some tools, can give them the ability to come up with some new ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The risk, as always, is cost. No one wants to spend money. But here are 3 things you can do to help manage your risk and cost:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dev Test environments are available inside of Azure. This allows you to automatically set things to shut down. This great feature can help you manage costs.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0If your company uses MSDN or developer licenses, you can get a free amount of spend in Azure (from $25 \u2013 $200 per month).<\/li>\n<li>Free trials. It\u2019s easy to spin up multiple free trials, so you can test out something and reduce the risk of spend. This is a great opportunity to do a POC for things that have high cost risk, like Azure Data Warehouse or HD Insight clusters. Just be sure to use them effectively as they do expire after a certain point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ir8kCPEQQhc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Need further help? Our expert team and solution offerings can help your business with any Azure product or service, including Managed Services offerings. Reach out today for support with <a href=\"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/enterprise-apps\/\">enterprise applications<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know the talk out there, everyone is moving to the cloud and people are&mldr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[292,264],"tags":[388],"class_list":["post-10327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-app-innovation","category-enterprise-apps","tag-app-dev","topics-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}