Every Cloud has an orchestration tool; we call ours dinManage. This is where you shop for stuff you want to spin up (servers, desktops, cloud storage & more). Use your Cloud portal to spin up a Windows 2008 or 2012 server in the Cloud. Simultaneously this will create a virtual private datacenter for you in the Cloud isolated from everyone else and connected to the Internet via a virtual firewall dedicated to you. Using dinManage, you can control this firewall’s rules, vpn tunnels, and buy public IP’s to map to the private IP’s of the servers/desktops/etc. you buy in the Cloud. You also get to pick your own private IP subnets and set those up as you wish. Create a point-to-point VPN tunnel over the Internet from your new “virtual private datacenter in the Cloud” to your onsite network. This IPSEC standard AES256 bit encrypted connection is facilitated by the virtual firewall in the Cloud to your onsite firewall (Cisco, Juniper, Sonicwall, etc.) Next, console into (RDP or use dinManage) to promote the Windows 2008 or 2012 server you spun up in step #2, and make it a Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controller. This will insure all your user login accounts, security policies etc. replicate to and will be available in the Cloud. Next, using dinManage spin up virtual desktops in the Cloud. Spin up more servers or Cloud storage if you wish as well.
