Presentation of Xpress Azure, the first extension of Microsoft Azure in Tunisia. Based on Microsoft Azure Stack in partnership with Cisco. For more informations, dont hesitate to contact me

1. Xpress Azure
Extension of Microsoft Azure
Aymen MAMI
Technical Sales Manager

2. Why the Cloud

3. Digital Transformation Strategy
Build what differentiates you Differentiated applications
Buy what doesn’t Infrastructure
Solve the mission critical/context
dilemma by using a trusted Cloud
Reduce complexity
Centralize, Standardize, Automate,
Outsource

4. Business need for new capabilities
Build infrastructure in a
matter of hours
Modernize to the latest
platforms & services
Tap into services that are
unavailable on-premises
Consume near-limitless
resources on-demand and
only pay for what
you need
React to business
demands faster with
more agility than
ever before
Focus on innovation
rather than facilities
Prepare for the pivotal moment when you need to react to business demands or market
conditions in days, not months.

5. Cloud allows customers to
focus their energy on building what differentiates
them: customer focused applications
This is the heart of Digital Transformation

6. Traditional model
• Dedicated infrastructure for each
application
• Custom hardware
• Distinct infrastructure and operations teams
• Customized processes and configurations
Servers
Cloud is a new way to think about your datacenter
Cloud model
• Loosely coupled apps and micro-services
• Industry-standard hardware
• Service-focused DevOps teams
• Standardized processes and configurations
Services

8. Cloud considerations
Xpress Azure
Performance
Latency
Data sovereignty
Security
Regulations

9. What are you solving for?

10. Based on Microsoft technologies
Broadest partner
ecosystem
Single enterprise level
relationship
and support
Native SSO among
services and
integration with
on-premises AD
Integrated but
separated enterprise
and consumer cloud
offerings
Common enterprise
social layer among all
services
Strong development
platform and huge
developer base
(e.g. VS, ALM, .NET)
Leader in hybrid
cloud, offering
max flexibility
(e.g. Search, SQL, Media)
Complete integration
between IaaS, PaaS
and SaaS
Industry leading with
security, privacy and
compliance
(e.g. EU Model
Clauses, HIPAA, RMS)
Best and most
innovative enterprise
cloud productivity
solution

11. StorageComputeIdentity Networking
90%
Cloud
Why Microsoft

12. Developing a hybrid cloud strategy
Legacy IT New IT reality Implementation Options Target Cloud Platform

13. Power of Azure hosted by
your trusted service
provider
Microsoft Azure Stack is a
new hybrid cloud platform
product that enables
organizations to deliver
Azure services from their
own datacenter.
Xpress Azure
Powered by Microsoft Azure Stack

14. Microsoft’s hybrid cloud platform
Cloud-inspired infrastructure
Azure IaaS | Azure PaaS
Compute | Network | Storage
App Service | Service Fabric*
Azure Resource Manager
Portal | PowerShell | DevOps tools
Microsoft Azure Stack
Private | Hosted
Cloud infrastructure
IaaS | PaaS
Azure Resource Manager
Portal | PowerShell | DevOps tools
Microsoft Azure
Public
Cloud-inspired infrastructure
Azure IaaS | Azure PaaS
Compute | Network | Storage
App Service | Service Fabric*
Azure Resource Manager
Portal | PowerShell | DevOps tools
Microsoft Azure Stack
Hosted
Azure services in your service
provider datacenter
Unified app development
One Azure ecosystem
Developers
IT
Power of Azure hosted by your trusted service provider

15. Hybrid & Open
Azure Ecosystem
Work with the tools and
technologies you want
across Azure and
Xpress Azure
List of available VM
images:
https://bit.ly/2u2avtL
Most Azure Marketplace solutions work on Xpress Azure
without modification

17. Xpress Azure

18. Azure PaaS available on Xpress Azure : Fully managed
platforms for high productivity development

19. Azure IaaS available on Xpress Azure: beyond traditional
virtualization

20. Thank you