How to Deploy Datacap Web Services (wTM) in Microsoft Azure

The purpose of this paper is to present the deployment of Datacap Web Services (wTM) in the Azure Cloud in response to a customer requirement. The requirement was for Datacap Web Services to be implemented in Azure in a highly available manner, which was dynamically scalable in response to workload and system demand. This paper describes the implementation in a Proof-of-Concept environment in the Microsoft Azure Cloud, using cloud-native features including:

• Azure VM Scale Sets
  allowing horizontal scaling of the Web Servers on demand, depending on the system load
• Azure SQL
  for hosting the Datacap databases (Admin, Engine, Fingerprint)
• Azure Application Gateway
  for balancing traffic to Datacap Web Servers, (IIS Servers)