Who this book is for

This book targets cloud and virtualization professionals who are willing to get hands-on exposure to Windows Azure Pack. It will help virtualization customers adopt cloud architecture, and it will also help the existing cloud providers to understand the benefits of Azure Pack. Similarly, the book will also help cloud professionals from other platforms such as VMware/OpenStack to appreciate and evaluate Azure Pack. If you are experienced in Server Virtualization and looking forward to learning about building an on-premises cloud solution, this book is for you. If you already know or have experience with other on-premises cloud solution, such as VMware cloud products, OpenStack, and more, and looking forward to seeing what Windows Azure Pack has to offer in cloud computing space, this book is for you. If you are an existing virtualization user and looking forward to adopting cloud in your IT operations, this book is for you. Same goes for cloud service provider offering IaaS and PaaS services.