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Read this eBook to learn 8 best practices for reducing your Microsoft Azure Spend so you can harness both the cost savings and agility of the public cloud.

You’re running a lot of your business on Windows Server today— mission-critical apps, Active Directory, Domain Name Servers, not to mention virtual machines and storage. For more than 20 years, in fact, Windows Server has been the operating system of choice for enterprise workloads.

You’re running a lot of your business on Windows Server today— mission-critical apps, Active Directory, Domain Name Servers, not to mention virtual machines and storage. For more than 20 years, in fact, Windows Server has been the operating system of choice for enterprise workloads. This guide shows you how you can use your Windows Server expertise to give your organization a boost in the age of cloud computing, addressing these topics and others: • Why move to the cloud? • What are some ways to use Azure for Windows Server workloads? • What about security? • Who else is doing this? • How do I get started?

Bring more opportunity to your business by bringing your Windows Server workloads to Azure. Because Azure runs on Windows Server, it’s easy to migrate your workloads along with your existing Windows Server skills, familiar tools, and established procedures. Download this guide to find out how easy Azure makes it to migrate or extend your Windows Server environment to Azure. You’ll discover: Ways to run your Windows Server workloads in Azure How to extend your on-premises IT offerings to Azure for hybrid innovation What savings you’ll get with your existing Windows Server licenses How Azure delivers industry-leading security

Watch as industry experts discuss strategies for overcoming design, deployment, and monitoring challenges in a Microsoft Cloud Platform environment. They examine real-life situations in which Rackspace architected and deployed Microsoft Private Cloud at scale, across multiple geographies. You’ll get first-hand what Red Hat has learned along the way, such as how to approach the integration of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) functionality, designing resilient architectures and failover, as well as building for scale.

Our recorded Windows webinar series covers all the basics and more to help you get started with Puppet. Each 45-minute recording focuses on a specific task you can automate with Puppet, as well as a demo of how it works. You’ll learn how to use automation to: • Manage local groups and Active Directory membership. • Manage Windows services, install packages and create scheduled tasks. • Deploy IIS and ASP.NET. • Set up Windows for system and application monitoring. • Get started on Azure with Puppet. Puppet can do a lot, so start small and build on each success. Enjoy the demos!