Azure News Roundup – October 3, 2020
14 Top Azure Announcements From Microsoft Ignite 2020 Here are the top announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2020: Microsoft Azure expands its cloud computing portfolio with additional multi-cloud and multi-edge hybrid capabilities including Azure Arc and Azure Stack updates. Microsoft Azure is Multiple Clouds – Public, US Gov, China and Germany Did you know that Microsoft […]
Read MoreAzure News Roundup – September 4, 2020
Universal Shifting to Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Platform for Live-Action, Animation Production The goal is to let creatives collaborate more easily and efficiently across geographic regions and with outside vendors. “It will unlock a new way to make movies in a way we haven’t been able to do before.” Empowering remote learning with Azure Cognitive Services […]
Read MoreAzure News Roundup – July 24, 2020
Welcome to our latest collection of Azure news and announcements from the past two weeks. It’s been a busy time between Microsoft Inspire this week along with the end of the 2020 fiscal year. There’s lots of big news in the Azure ecosystem, and Azure continues to grow, so do the number of users with […]
Read MoreHow To Improve SQL Server Database Resilience by Migrating to Azure
Microsoft SQL Server supports the essential applications of thousands of businesses. It’s a robust and sophisticated database solution, but, as with all business-critical services, users must take action to minimize downtime and eliminate potential failure points. Issues at multiple levels of the tech stack affect database availability: Network and hardware failures can take down databases. […]
Read MoreHow To Monitor Web App Availability on Microsoft Azure
Downtime is a risk faced by every business that serves customers on the web. The average website goes down for three hours a month because web hosting infrastructure isn’t wholly reliable and networks are even less so. Azure is more resilient than the garden-variety web hosting provider, with SLAs that promise less than 43 minutes […]
Read MoreAzure News Roundup – July 10, 2020
Welcome to our weekly roundup of the latest news and updates in the larger Azure ecosystem, where we cover some of the big announcements over the past 2 weeks. Advancing Azure service quality with artificial intelligence: AIOps Microsoft has created an AIOps team to collaborate broadly across Azure engineering teams and partnered with Microsoft Research […]
Read MoreHow Azure SLAs Can Help You to Achieve Optimal Uptime and Availability
Microsoft Azure is designed to minimize downtime, and Microsoft offers guarantees about the maximum amount of downtime service users should expect in the form of Service Level Agreements. It provides services and guidance that help Azure users to decrease downtime and offers better SLAs when Azure users take advantage of redundancy features built into the […]
Read MoreAn Introduction To Microsoft SQL Server Monitoring
This post is a high-level summary of our white paper on SQL database monitoring. For more depth and detail, you can download the full white paper. Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most widely adopted database platforms in the world. For many years an excellent database engine for Windows-centric data centers, today SQL Server […]
Read MoreAzure News Roundup – June 26, 2020
Welcome to our latest roundup of all the major news events in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem over the past two weeks. Microsoft confirms acquisition of CyberX to boost security in its Azure IoT business Microsoft’s interest in the company touches on two key areas: IT services for large enterprises, and cybersecurity — specifically cybersecurity leveraging […]
Read MoreFive Azure Monitoring and Incident Management Tools You Need To Know About
Azure Monitor is the platform’s central monitoring, notification, and alerting system. It brings together tools for turning telemetry—logs and metrics—from across Azure into actionable information. But, despite Azure Monitor’s power, SMBs struggle to use it effectively. Consequently, they lack visibility into the state of their infrastructure, and, without that visibility, it is difficult or impossible […]
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