904, 2019

Monitor service issues with Azure Service Health

By |April 9th, 2019|Azure How To, Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Platforms, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

This blog post covers how to use Microsoft’s built-in Azure Service Health personalized dashboards and external services to stay informed about and take action to mitigate Azure issues that could affect your applications.
How to monitor Azure service issues
You may already be familiar with the Azure Status Page which provides a global view of the health […]

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 […]

2811, 2018

Azure SQL Data Warehouse improves the data querying performance

By |November 28th, 2018|Azure How To, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

Azure SQL Data Warehouse showed to be a fast and flexible analytics platform. Enhancements in the distributed query execution layer as per the recent experience result in the significant query performance improvements for Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW).

I/O bandwidth to storage and repartitioning speed (shuffle speed) determine the analytics workload performance. In this article, we are […]

2711, 2018

Migrate To Managed Disks In The Azure Portal

By |November 27th, 2018|Azure How To, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

Azure has recently introduced the Managed Disks migration functionality that allows users to migrate from unmanaged Disks to Managed Disks in the Azure Portal in a single click.

Here is an overview of the benefits for those using Managed Disks:

High availability across the compute and storage resources
Integration of the disks, images, snapshots as the […]

2611, 2018

Azure IaaS Apps Disaster Recovery

By |November 26th, 2018|Azure How To, Azure News, Cloud Platforms, Microsoft Azure, New Features|0 Comments

 

Recently Azure offered native Disaster Recovery for applications running on IaaS being the first public cloud to offer such a service. This service makes applications region-level resilient to failures via replicating VMs into other regions. Azure Availability Zones and Availability Sets add to Azure Site Recovery to complete resiliency for applications running on Azure VMs.

 

Advantages […]

2008, 2018

Profiling Slow MySQL Queries In Azure With EXPLAIN

By |August 20th, 2018|Azure How To, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

Azure Database for MySQL is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) solution that Microsoft offers on Azure. Using Azure managed services for MySQL enables one to easily build an intelligent and secure application.

It often happens that a simple query can become a bottleneck impacting the entire database performance. MySQL integrates a very useful tool – the EXPLAIN […]

3007, 2018

Custom email notifications for SQL Database Automatic tuning recommendations

By |July 30th, 2018|Azure How To, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

There has always been a requirement for a solution to receive automated email notifications with suggested SQL Database Automatic tuning recommendations to be able to view and build automated alerts. To follow up with this need Microsoft advised the solution that consists of automating the execution of a PowerShell script retrieving tuning recommendations using Azure Automation, […]

3007, 2018

Azure serverless for your IoT

By |July 30th, 2018|Azure How To, Cloud Platforms, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Chances are those developing an IoT-based solution focus mainly on the devices and what is possible to accomplish with them. They might want to process data coming from a network of devices in real time, analyze the data to gain insights, get alerted for special conditions, manage the devices themselves, and so on. The less interesting part […]

1307, 2018

How To Speed Up A WordPress Site On Microsoft Azure

By |July 13th, 2018|Azure How To, Cloud Platforms, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

There are two things that discourage users the most and increase the bounce rate: website speed and content. Most search engines evaluate site loading speed when ranking websites and decrease the visibility of slower websites. The two key elements that affect the latency of websites running on Azure App Service are:

use of remote storage […]

907, 2018

Secure your backups and data with Azure Backup

By |July 9th, 2018|Azure How To, Cloud Platforms, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Data is an important aspect of this era that significantly impacts businesses.  Locky, WannaCry, and  Petya were the serious ransomware attacks which encouraged users to take special measures to retain data security. The increased innovation in ransomware technology has removed the access boundaries for hackers to access data. To ensure the safety of backup data, Azure […]