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Straight answers from the certified engineers who design, run and protect Azure environments every day.
Prodatix has mapped out every Azure product and service and which combinations to use and not use based on your cloud objective. Is it more cost effective to use Azure VPN or set up a virtual firewall from Fortinet, Meraki, Sophos, etc.? Is it better to have a full-time VPN or a pay-as-you-go private VPN? Should you commit to an Azure Reservation or an hourly commit for a year?
Having expertise in how all Azure products and services work together can yield considerable cost savings and fewer infrastructure management headaches.
Yes. A big part of maintaining a stable and protected Azure environment is monitoring it 24/7 to detect VM, VPN, Managed Disk, etc. errors. Then, you need to monitor the backup process daily to ensure that when a problem or disaster happens, you can be assured your Azure products can be restored quickly and re-attached to your VPN or other access protocol.
Monitoring and management also catch run-away costs. If you’re only looking at your Azure environment once a month, it’s too late to make changes which could have reduced costs. Prodatix has a complete monitoring and management tool for Azure and Veeam to ensure your server and data protection environment is always available.
One of the best options is Azure Site Recovery, which is a cloud replication service for your on-premises servers and data. This service provides a dedicated managed disk (HDD or SSD) in Azure which we connect your on-premises servers to. Every 15 minutes (or whatever time period you choose), your on-premises data is replicated to the Azure Managed Disks.
In the event of a disaster (or a fail-over test), we attach your Azure Managed Disks to awaiting cores and RAM (Azure compute) and have your VMs and data ready in minutes to connect from anywhere to keep your business running. We can also set up Veeam Instant Recovery and the Prodatix Fractional Azure Reservation for more cost-effective cloud DR restore.
This answer has changed over the past few years. As Azure has become extremely stable with a 99.999+% uptime, the concern now is the stability and speed of your Internet connection. If you have a stable fiber gigabit connection, then going all cloud is a good bet. If you have an unstable or slow (100Mbps or less) Internet connection, you will want to first review the types of apps you are putting in Azure. If they are graphically intensive (CAD files, for example) you could see latency and buffering delays. What if your office or home Internet goes down? The best cloud in the world is useless if you can’t access it.
The other consideration is for remote employees. Will you set up a secure VPN for each staff member? Will you let them use Remote Desktop Connection, etc.? What security issues could present themselves? Remote work is great but is typically less secure than a dedicated office. You need to protect your Azure environment with a dedicated virtual firewall. Don’t rely on your remote workers to provide digital security.
Veeam is the number one backup software in the world for a reason. We have used many different software products over the years. The top brands all have great features, but Veeam restores more quickly and more accurately from our experience. For Azure, Veeam offers two products: Veeam Backup for Azure and Veeam Data Cloud for Azure.
Veeam Backup for Azure is a license-only product. You set up your own dedicated backup VM in Azure and install the Veeam software and licenses. You also need to set up storage in Azure for the backups. This is a good option if you want complete control over your backup infrastructure in Azure.
Veeam Data Cloud for Azure is an all-inclusive product whereby Veeam has already set up the Azure backup infrastructure, software and storage VMs in Azure. You connect your Azure workloads to Veeam Data Cloud, and it takes over and backs up your data to immutable Azure storage. This is a great option if you don’t want to manage your Azure backup environment.