Another great blog series from Thomas W Shinder – MSFT and contributors!

The Cloud Platform Integration Framework (CPIF) provides workload integration guidance for onboarding applications into a Microsoft Cloud Solution. CPIF describes how organizations, Microsoft Partners and Solution Integrators should design and deploy Cloud-targeted workloads utilizing the hybrid cloud platform and management capabilities of Azure, System Center and Windows Server

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

     1.1 Cloud Platform Integration Framework (CPIF) Overview

     1.2 CPIF Architecture

2 Azure Architectural Pattern Concepts

     2.1 Overview of Azure Architectural Patterns

          2.1.1 Pattern Guide Use

3 Summary

Prepared by:
Joel Yoker – Microsoft  
David Ziembicki – Microsoft  
Tom Shinder – Microsoft

Cloud Platform Integration Framework Overview and Patterns:

Cloud Platform Integration Framework – Overview and Architecture

Modern Datacenter Architecture Patterns-Hybrid Networking

Modern Datacenter Architectural Patterns-Azure Search Tier

Modern Datacenter Architecture Patterns-Multi-Site Data Tier

Modern Datacenter Architecture Patterns – Offsite Batch Processing Tier

Modern Datacenter Architecture Patterns-Global Load Balanced Web Tier

Introduction

1.1 Cloud Platform Integration Framework (CPIF) Overview

The Cloud Platform Integration Framework (CPIF) provides workload integration guidance for onboarding applications into a Microsoft Cloud Solution. CPIF describes how organizations, Microsoft Partners and Solution Integrators should design and deploy Cloud-targeted workloads utilizing the hybrid cloud platform and management capabilities of Azure, System Center and Windows Server. The CPIF domains have been decomposed into the following functions:

Figure 1: Cloud Platform Integration Framework

By integrating these functions directly into workloads….

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//Richard