2102, 2019

PostgreSQL Read Replicas Preview

By |February 21st, 2019|Azure News, General, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

This blog post is about the Read Replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL which Microsoft recently announced in a preview.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL now supports continuous, asynchronous data replication from the master Azure Database for PostgreSQL server to up to five Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers located in the same region. These read replicas allow […]

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 […]

1712, 2018

Restore an Azure VM with In-Place restore

By |December 17th, 2018|Azure News, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

Azure Backup now allows In-Place restore of disks in IaaS VMs. With the help of this feature, it is possible to roll back or fix corrupted virtual machines through in-place restore without the needs of spinning up a new VM. Azure customers now have multiple choices to restore their IaaS VMs: create new VM, Restore Disks and Replace disks.

Replace existing operation can […]

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 […]

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 […]

2706, 2018

Features of the Default Compatibility Level 140 for Azure SQL Database

By |June 27th, 2018|Azure News, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Compatibility Level 140 has become a part of Azure default features and users can automatically get it once they create a database in Azure. The service is available in most regions and the number of databases running on Azure has reached up to 539, 903.

Compatibility Level 140  Features:

Exclusive Features: adaptive query processing is a major […]

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 […]

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 […]

1303, 2018

Developer Features of Azure #CosmosDB Gremlin API

By |March 13th, 2018|Azure News, New Features|0 Comments

Azure CosmosDB Gremlin API provides the complete solution of graph database as graphs are the best ways to model the real world data in naturally inter-connected manner. Every graph consisted of two parts, i.e. vertices and edges. To represent the discrete quantities like a person or an event, you can use vertices while edges are […]

1303, 2018

Benefits of Query Replica Scale-Out for Azure Analysis Services

By |March 13th, 2018|Azure News, General, New Features|0 Comments

Clients always need an immediate response to their queries. Microsoft Azure fully comprehends the need of quick response time and has included the scale-out feature in Azure Analysis Services, Azure Portal, Analysis Services Rest API, and PowerShell. Scale-out feature distributes queries in different replicas and separates them in a pool which minimizes the processing time. […]