The public cloud has rapidly moved past the novelty, curiosity stage to the business critical initiative stage for nearly every established organization. In a 2016 IDC CloudView survey, 80% of the enterprises contacted were actively engaged in public-cloud projects. The driving forces are a realization that the public cloud is “enterprise ready” and the need to be more agile, more responsive and more competitive. For those organizations that already have an existing physical IT infrastructure, the common starting point is a hybrid approach, which extends the existing data center into Microsoft® AzureTM.
With the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series for Azure allows you to securely enable a hybrid cloud incorporating security concepts that includes segmentation policies, much like the prevention techniques used on your physical network. This document complements the VM-Series technical documentation with some added guidelines and recommendations that address common questions that arise during hybrid use-case deployments in Azure.