From the course: Microsoft Entra ID: Basics
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Impact on hybrid infrastructures
From the course: Microsoft Entra ID: Basics
Impact on hybrid infrastructures
- [Instructor] Now, what about enterprise organizations planning to deploy a hybrid environment? How does Azure AD impact the infrastructure in such situations? In large organizations, judging the impact only on the basis of hardware and software may not be fair since there are a lot more factors involved. So let's start with hardware and software, but also look at other things after that. The assumption here is that we are talking about an organization which is already operational, and has a significant on-premises infrastructure. They are trying to figure out whether a hybrid deployment would benefit them. Let's analyze what happens if they choose Azure AD. The number of rack servers will decrease because a part of the identity workload will shift to Azure AD instead of on-premises servers. And since the number of servers decreases, networking and storage equipment required for those servers will also decrease. As a result of the above, the number of enterprise…
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