1. Moving Data to the Cloud
Adwait Ullal

2. Moving Data to the Cloud
 Who Am I
 Adwait Ullal
 .NET Enterprise Architect
 Azure evaluation for a financial services firm
 Current position: Senior Software Architect at Digital Air
Strike
 Contact info
 adwait.ullal@gmail.com
 http://www.adwait.com/
 Twitter: @adwait

3. Moving Data to the Cloud
 Audience
 Data Architects
 Enterprise Architects
 Solutions Architects
 Anyone interested in governance

4. Moving Data to the Cloud
 Agenda
 Cloud landscape
 PaaS Components
 Storage Components
 Regulatory, Legal & Audit issues
 Technologies to use
 Big Data
 Relational database
 Integration
 Operations & Change Management
 Performance, Billing tips

5. Cloud Overview
 Three Layered Cake
Software As A Service
Platform As A Service
Infrastructure As A Service

6. Platform As A Service
 Components
Compute
Services (Authentication, Service Bus)
Storage

7. Storage
 Components
 Queues
 Blobs
 Tables
 SQL Azure

8. Moving Data to the Cloud
 Before You Move
 Regulatory issues
 SOX
 PCI-DSS
 HIPPA
 Other industry or government regulations
 Data Location/Breach legislation
 Storing EU data in the US
 State govt. data breach regulations

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 Before You Move
 Privacy issues
 Storing PII?
 Encrypting PII
 If so, Key Management
 Audit requirements
 Backup & recovery
 Tip
 Consult your legal, audit depts.

10. Moving Data to the Cloud
 Before You Move
 Remodel the physical model?
 Stay with relational
 Use Big Data
 Relational
 Does the provider offer relational?
 Limitations
 Big Data
 Impact on applications, analytics

11. Moving Data to the Cloud
 Big Data structures
 Azure
 Blobs (unstructured)
 Scoped by container
 Tables (semi structured, suitable for storing state)
 Scoped by PartitionKey, RowKey, TimeStamp
 Queues
 Drives
 How do these relate to your model
 Do you still need a relational DB to keep indexes

12. Moving Data to the Cloud
 SQL
 Understand the limitations
 Schema design
 Replication
 SSIS
 Analytics
 Reporting
 Integrated authentication
 New Features
 Federation

13. Moving Data to the Cloud
 Integration
 On-premise
 Azure Connect
 WCF
 Sync Framework for replication

14. Moving Data to the Cloud
 Integration
 Third party
 Service Bus
 WCF
 File Transfer

15. Moving Data to the Cloud
 Integration
 File Transfer
 No FTP server in Azure
 Use blobs for file transfers
 Replication
 Sync Framework

16. Moving Data to the Cloud
 Operations
 Backups
 Database Monitoring
 Support Mechanism
 Change Management
 Who is responsible
 Is it SOX compliant

17. Moving Data to the Cloud
 Performance & Billing considerations
 Understand how charges accumulate for
 Storage access
 Bandwidth
 Mitigation
 Collocate storage and compute resources
 Caching, global or local

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