I'm looking at ways to solve a particular problem.
We want to be able to issue people with an application that connects to a SQL Azure database.
These people aren't part of our company so don't, and won't, have any access to our network.
They are scattered around the world and have nothing in common whatsoever.
Other than normal SQL Authentication, SQL Azure allows you to restrict access to databases by IP address, but of course we don't know the IP addresses of these people because
- There are quite a few of them
- We have no control over their internet connectivity so if they have a dynamic IP we have no say over that.
Now, one option is to look at something like Citrix or hosted desktops.
Another option is to use a hosted VPN service that will provide a static IP so we can allow that IP access to the SQL Azure instance.
Does anyone know of such a service please?