{"id":10428,"date":"2018-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threecloud.wpengine.com\/post\/testing-the-azure-waters-with-simple-projects\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T20:22:54","slug":"testing-the-azure-waters-with-simple-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/resources\/testing-the-azure-waters-with-simple-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing the Azure Waters with Simple Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is talking about Azure these days, and though many have started using it, there are still many who have yet to touch it. In this post I\u2019ll point out 3 ways you can test the Azure waters within your organization to see how it fits and figure out how you can start to use it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ktv3vv6QG_A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Disaster Recovery<\/strong> \u2013 Many of us are paying for hardware off site, maybe a colocation data center, for disaster recovery. Looking at Azure for this is a great way to start implementing using the public cloud in your strategy. A big benefit is you\u2019ll cut down on your capital cost for hardware (that hopefully you\u2019ll never use) and replace it with something scalable that you can fire up when you need it and delete it when you\u2019re done with it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. DEV Tests<\/strong> \u2013 A great scenario for testing out Azure with low risk. How many of us would love to have a test environment that matches our production environment\u2019s performance? Most don\u2019t want to spend money for on-premises hardware that they won\u2019t use in production. With Azure, you can fire up a VM that has a matching performance level of your production, as well as do some performance testing of your applications and then tear it down when you\u2019re done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. POCs<\/strong> \u2013 My favorite way to test something is to do a POC. One way to do this is to take a business scenario that you haven\u2019t been able to solve, maybe because you don\u2019t have the hardware resources, and you test it out in Azure to see what you can do. Another way is to take one of the Azure technologies and dig in and learn how you can apply it to a business problem.<\/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. Contact us at 888-8AZURE or\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:sales@3cloudsolutions.com\">sales@3cloudsolutions.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is talking about Azure these days, and though many have started using it, there&mldr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-platform","topics-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}