1202, 2019

New Availability Zones in Azure Service Bus and Event Hubs

By |February 12th, 2019|Azure News, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

In June 2018 Microsoft released a preview of Azure Service Bus Premium tier for Availability Zones and Azure Event Hubs Standard tier in 3 regions – Central US, East US 2, and France Central. Now Availability Zones support for Azure Service Bus Premium and Azure Event Hubs Standard is also available in the following regions:

East US 2
West US […]

502, 2019

PowerShell and ACLs in Azure Backup

By |February 5th, 2019|IT Management, Microsoft Azure, New Features|0 Comments

This blog post explains a set of new features that Microsoft recently revealed. These features allow backing up Microsoft Azure file shares natively using Azure Backup. These features also support file shares connected to Azure File Sync.
Azure files with NTFS ACLs
Microsoft has recently announced the preview of preserving and restoring new technology file system (NTFS) access control lists (ACL) for Azure files. Now […]

3101, 2019

Azure firewall for virtual machines backup

By |January 31st, 2019|Azure How To, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

In this blog post we will explain how to leverage Azure Backup and Azure Firewall to ensure ultimate protection for your data. Azure Backup and Azure Firewall complement each other well to provide complete protection to resources and data in Azure. With the general availability of Azure Firewall Microsoft now provides a fully stateful firewall as a service that allows cloud […]

1701, 2019

Monitor data factory pipelines with proactive alerts

By |January 17th, 2019|IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

Complex data integrations help businesses combine data and business processes in hybrid data environments. Recent data increase in volume, variety, and velocity has resulted in the delays in monitoring and issue resolution. Nowadays organizations look to reduce and mitigate the risks of data integration activity failures along with the impact they cause to other downstream processes. […]

1001, 2019

Configure automated availability deployments for SQL Server on Azure VMs

By |January 10th, 2019|IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

The high availability architectures are designed to be available even during the hardware, database or network failures. Azure VM instances offer 99.9% availability impacted by the SLA in three scenarios:

unplanned hardware maintenance
unexpected downtime
planned maintenance

To maintain redundancy one can group virtual machines into Availability Sets so that when a planned or unplanned event occurs at […]

1912, 2018

Automatic updates for Azure Site Recovery

By |December 19th, 2018|IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

Staying up-to-date with the latest software releases is one of the biggest hassles for administrators of the cloud services. Downloading the latest software and performing frequent upgrades is even more cumbersome if downtime is involved in the process.

Azure Site Recovery provides a monthly release with the latest features and enhancements. This means one would need to […]

1212, 2018

CloudMonix adds support for Azure Application Gateway monitoring and automation

By |December 12th, 2018|IT Management, Microsoft Azure, New Features, News & Press|0 Comments

 

Azure Application Gateway provides application-level routing and load balancing services that let customers build scalable and highly-available web front ends in Azure. Traditional monitoring setup creates challenges as it involves defining parameters based on the expected behavior, setting up dashboards to visualize the data and configuring alerts and notifications. This approach has its limits and […]

1012, 2018

Azure API Management for serverless now in preview

By |December 10th, 2018|Azure News, IT Management, Microsoft Azure, New Features|0 Comments

 

Azure API Management offers serverless API management with instant provisioning, automated scaling, built-in high availability, and pay-per-action pricing. It allows users to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs.

In a few clicks, Azure API Management creates a “front-end” which lets internal and external applications exchange data with custom back-end services running on Azure or hosted on-premises. API […]

712, 2018

The Business Critical tier becomes the optimal choice for mission-critical SQL workloads

By |December 7th, 2018|IT Management, Microsoft Azure, New Features|0 Comments

 

Microsoft has recently announced the Business Critical service tier in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance in the general availability. Being a new deployment option in the SQL Database, Managed Instance streamlines SQL Server workloads migration from on-premises to the cloud. It also combines the native SQL server features and capabilities with the benefits of a fully managed database service.

The […]

612, 2018

Analyze time series with Azure Data Explorer

By |December 6th, 2018|IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

This blog post describes the basics of time series analysis in Azure Data Explorer.

Azure Data Explorer (ADX) is a service designed for fast data exploration. It provides instant insights into large datasets to analyze performance, identify trends and anomalies, and troubleshoot problems.

The collection of telemetry data is performed from cloud services or IoT devices. The analysis can be performed […]