607, 2018

Azure services for building mobile apps

By |July 6th, 2018|Azure How To, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Users can easily build, install, and test their apps with the help of multiple robust tools and services offered by various app centers such as Azure, Visual Studio app center, and Xamarin. These platforms allow users to opt for a language and effortlessly choose cloud services to quickly scale their apps. Here are some cloud […]

2206, 2018

Accelerate your business with Azure IoT

By |June 22nd, 2018|Azure How To, Azure News, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Operational efficiency is the core of every business as it forms the next generation of products and services.  It’s a remarkable revolution and is known as the Internet of Things (IoT). Director of Azure IoT considers it to be the most important factor of the technology era and believes that people who aren’t using IoT […]

2006, 2018

Connect Azure using VPN Gateway to AWS VPC

By |June 20th, 2018|AWS, Azure How To, Cloud Monitoring, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

In this post, we will see how a virtual network in Azure connects to an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with the help of a virtual network gateway. For a guide on how to connect AWS VPC to Azure using the dedicated VPN connection see this post.
Table of Contents:

Insight into the environment
Azure […]

1806, 2018

Technical Method To Disable SSL 3.0 In Azure Machines

By |June 18th, 2018|Azure How To, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Security is the ultimate goal of Microsoft Azure as customers want a highly protected environment for work. SSL 3.0 was a major vulnerability observed in Azure machines and websites. It was not limited to one or two types of machines, but all websites and Windows Virtual machines got vulnerable. To ensure the safety of the […]

1506, 2018

Using MySQL Sys Schema To Optimize A Database

By |June 15th, 2018|Azure How To, Cloud Platforms, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

MySQL sys schema is fully functional in Azure Database for MySQL 5.7 and it allows customers to troubleshoot performance issues due to the availability of performance and information schema. Previously, it was the part of MySQL5.5 and was responsible for managing vital resources such as stored programs, memory allocation, and metadata locking. The efficiency of […]

1406, 2018

How To Enable A CDN Endpoint In Azure Websites

By |June 14th, 2018|Azure How To, General, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure Content Delivery Network is a reliable and fast service for sending audio, images, and videos all over the world. The reliability of the service depends on the servers present around the globe that send content to the nearest node of the relevant user. This process ensures higher speed and better availability along with good user […]

1206, 2018

SQL Database in a hub-and-spoke architecture with SQL Data Warehouse

By |June 12th, 2018|Azure How To, Cloud Platforms, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure SQL Data Warehouse is an analytics platform known to be the backbone of an enterprise data warehouse. It allows for massively parallel processing while elastically and independently scaling compute and storage. Being a hub to a number of data marts and cubes SQL data warehouse integrates seamlessly with big data stores featuring tailored performance. […]

1106, 2018

Improved performance in Azure VPN Gateways

By |June 11th, 2018|Azure How To, Azure News, Cloud Platforms, General, IT Management, Microsoft Azure, New Features|0 Comments

Recently Microsoft introduced a new generation of VPN gateways that offer a 6-times better performance, reliability, and scalability at the same price. These features are highly beneficial for mission-critical workloads as well as for cross-premises and cross-region VPN performance. Re-engineered VPN gateway service is ultimately backed by an even stricter SLA.

Furthermore, in order to ensure […]

706, 2018

Enhance security of Azure Storage

By |June 7th, 2018|Azure How To, Cloud Platforms, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure Storage account users can now benefit from “Secure Transfer Required” option which enhances the security of their accounts by only allowing requests to the account from secure connections. For example, when using REST APIs to access your storage account all non-HTTPS connections will be rejected.

“Secure transfer required” option is disabled by default. It also […]

506, 2018

Detect and prevent Petya ransomware in Azure Security Center

By |June 5th, 2018|Azure How To, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Petya ransomware infection that originated in Ukraine affected a great deal of Windows machines worldwide and highlighted the sophisticated malware behavior in 64 countries. This article outlines basic measures that Azure users can take to detect and prevent this threat via Azure Security Center.

Prevention of the malware

Azure Security Center helps to prevent Petya ransomware in […]