Azure Arc based Hybrid Solution - 4 Week POC

Managing enterprise workloads that span hybrid environments like multiple clouds, on-premises, and data centers is complex, challenging, and costly.

Nous Azure Arc Hybrid Cloud Solution can help overcome these common challenges and more by delivering a unified and consistent hybrid and multi-cloud solution for the complete IT estate. Nous helps customers to integrate Azure monitoring, security, and compliance into the DevOps. Through Azure Arc, Nous implements governance to clients’ disparate environments through the Azure portal to simplify multi-cloud management and drive operational excellence.

Agenda

Week 1

• Azure Arc insight workshop
• Discovery and assessment
• Target architecture definition
• Set up network connectivity between heterogeneous environments
• Migration roadmap assessment and plan

Week 2

• Azure account setup, policies, and compliance
• Azure Arc setup and configuration
• Automation scripts- VM onboarding, data servers
• Configure Azure governance and security templates
• Review DevOps implementation

Week 3

• Validate the Azure Arc configuration
• Validate compliance audit checklists (CIS/SOC type)
• Test run, validation, verification
• Review the configuration with client

Week 4

• Azure control plane telemetry and log analytics dashboards
• Azure policy service to ensure compliance with SLA
• Declarative resource management - continuous monitoring with Azure Monitor, alarm setup, incident management workflows
• Threat detection and vulnerability assessment with Azure Defender

Deliverables

• Azure Arc insight workshop
• Deployment reference architecture and approach document
• Azure automation (backup and failover tasks)
• Best practices guide to operate and manage Azure Arc environment
• Azure Arc governance, policies, and security blueprints
• Functional, highly available Arc-enabled VM/ SQL cluster in the customer’s Azure subscription