In this episode I am joined by Ihcene Cheriet.

Ihcene is a PM at Microsoft working in the Azure Stack team focussed on the Marketplace within Azure Stack Hub.

In this episode Ihcene shares her story of how she graduated as a Software Engineer, did some pretty cool internships and found her passion for the PM role within Microsoft.

Then we dive in to a discussion around how powerful the Marketplace is within Azure Stack Hub for ISVs and for customers.  

We cover three customer personas: 

• ISV - On-boarding their Solution to Azure Stack 
• Developer - Azure Hybrid Model 
• Operations - curating the Marketplace to achieve Governance 

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did and a massive thanks to Ihcene for sharing her knowledge and insight with us.

@icheriet1

Links discussed in this episode: 

• Marketplace items available today on Azure Stack Hub : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/operator/azure-stack-marketplace-azure-items?view=azs-2002
• ISV technical publishing guide for Azure Stack Hub : aka.ms/azsonboarding
• Azure Stack Partner Portal at the Edge : aka.ms/azurestack/partners (Forboth ISVs and Sis interested in bringing their solution over to Azure Stack Hub or Azure Stack Edge)

For disaster recovery scenarios to have data protection for operation backup and restore. You can have a backup on Azure and a backup on the Azure Stack Hub

• Commvault 
• Veeam Backup & Replication

Networking: VPN services, Load balancing services, Firewall services or for centralized management

• Palo Alto VM-Series Next Generation Firewall
• FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Control Center
• Check   Point CloudGuard IaaS Single Gateway
• f5 Big-IP Virtual Edition

Hidden Gems:

Bitnami released recently :

• GitLab Community Edition
• Cloud-based Git repository and version control system
• TensorFlow Serving
• for machine learning models