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We make business easy
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We make business easy
Easier Simpler Faster
LS Retail is an independent software vendor (ISV) developing business solutions for the retail and hospitality sector
We provide innovative solutions that make our customers successful
Purpose
LS Retail overview
Headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland
25 years of experience
Origins can be traced back to 1986
Employs 250 people worldwide:
• 100 - Development
• 90 - Consulting
• 30 - Sales & Marketing
• 30 - Finance & Operations
Employee Locations Headquarters Subsidiaries
Subsidiaries in the US, Dubai, Singapore and Malaysia andlocal representation in Mexico, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Spain, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, India and Australia
Quick overview
• We outsource
• Advania Data Center• Hosts - 20
• Virtual Machines – 310
• Azure• Virtual Machines – 60
Azure
• In the beginning (2013)• Testing this new great thing
• Somewhere in the Cloud
• Lack of structure
• Later on (2015)• Production workloads
• Test and Development workloads
• Many Account owners - That means too many Administrators ;-)
• Many Subscriptions – Limits overview
• Structure forming – Lack of Know-How
• Management
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Enrollment
Azure – North Europe Azure – South East Asia
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Azure
• Challenges (2017)• Resource overview
• Controlled cost
• Delegation of control
• Management of subscriptions
• Moving of resources
• Current (2017)• Azure Audit Project with SoftwareONE
• New Structure and Design
• New Data Center locations
Cloud overview
Azure
• 2 Subscriptions• Production
• For all production workloads both Internal and External
• Dev/Test• For all development and testing workloads
• 3 Regions• US
• Europe
• Asia
• Easy to add additional regions
• Homogeneous structure across regions, networks and subscriptions
Azure Regions
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Production Subscription
LS Retail – Advania Reykjavik
Dev / Test Subscription
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Virtual Network
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North Europe
Virtual Network
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South East Asia
Virtual Network
Production
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Virtual Network
The new structure - Dev/Test
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The new structure - Production
Production Virtual Network
DMZ Subnet - Internal
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So Why?
• Challenge• Resource overview
• Cost control
• Deligation of control
• Management of subscriptions
• Moving resources
• Security
• Solution• Number of subscriptions and accounts
• Access restrictions and automation
• Resource groups
• Number of subscriptions and accounts
• Will still be a hassle
• The new design and structure
Current status
• Phases• Discovery
• Clean Up
• Design
• Migration
• (Enhancment/Additions)
When designing Azure
The future
• Azure will continue to grow• More workload will be moved
• Resources will be more effectively utilized with automation
• At some point all of the workload might be moved to Azure
