1608, 2015

Recieve your Azure alerts in Slack and Hipchat

By |August 16th, 2015|General|0 Comments

Team messaging services are all the rage these days.  Many organizations are de-emphasizing slow and bulky email and are adapting popular chat platforms such as Slack and Hipchat in order to optimize and enhance their teams’ collaboration.

If your team collaborates on either of these platforms, task-switching to email to find out about production alerts is time consuming and inconvenient. […]

2307, 2015

What is Azure Stream Analytics?

By |July 23rd, 2015|Cloud Platforms, General, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure Stream Analytics is a big data analytics service for the Internet of Things (IoT) that provides data analytics services over streaming data. Azure Stream Analytics platform enable developers to combine streaming data with historical data to derive business insights.  It is a fully managed service that has low latency and provides scalable infrastructure for […]

1407, 2015

What is Azure HD Insight?

By |July 14th, 2015|General, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure HD Insight is a Hadoop service offering hosted in Azure that enables clusters of managed hadoop instances.  Azure HDInsight deploys and provisions Apache Hadoop clusters in the cloud, providing a software framework designed to manage, analyze, and report on big data with high reliability and availability. Azure HD Insight uses the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hadoop […]

1407, 2015

What is Azure Storage?

By |July 14th, 2015|General, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure Storage is a scalable cloud-based storage-as-a-service available for applications running in Azure cloud. Azure Storage provides storage infrastructure for storing files and media (BLOB storage), messages (Queue storage) and non-relational schema-less data (Table storage).

 

What is Azure Storage used for?

It is mainly used with Azure hosted cloud application and services.

Provide applications with an interface to […]

1407, 2015

What is Azure Cloud Service Monitoring?

By |July 14th, 2015|Cloud Monitoring, General, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure Cloud Services Monitoring is referred to the collective processes that enable in managing, monitoring and controlling cloud operations and assets on Azure Cloud Services Platform. Azure Cloud Services Monitoring helps cloud administrators in ensuring cloud services performance, mitigating slowdowns and outages and delivers stable and consistent cloud services.

 

How Azure Cloud Services Monitoring is used?

Azure […]

1407, 2015

What is Azure Virtual Machines Management?

By |July 14th, 2015|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, General, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure Virtual Machines Management is the process of monitoring and managing the operations and processes on virtual machines – hosted on the Azure Cloud Service Platform. Azure Virtual Machines Management provides virtualization / cloud administrators with options to deploy, monitor, and build their Azure environments. Azure Virtual Machines Management is usually enabled through a set […]

1407, 2015

What is Azure Virtual Network Management?

By |July 14th, 2015|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, General, IT Management|0 Comments

Azure Virtual Network Management is referred to the process of managing, monitoring, optimizing and controlling operations of Virtual Networks hosted on Azure Cloud platform. It allows for the supervision of all external networks connected with virtual network and the cloud resources running on Microsoft Azure platform.

 

How Azure Virtual Network Management is used?

 

Azure Virtual Network […]

1407, 2015

Azure Table Storage Vs MongoDB on Azure Cloud

By |July 14th, 2015|Cloud Platforms, General, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

Developers often get stumbled when choosing a NoSQL database on Azure to store a large amount of data with high volume expectation. Azure Table Storage and MongoDB are often the prime choice for developers. But based on different capabilities and supported environments, it’s difficult to say whether MongoDB or Azure Table Storage will provide better performance […]

1407, 2015

Staging or Production Instance, How to find Azure Deployment Slot at service runtime?

By |July 14th, 2015|Cloud Automation, General, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

There are times when it is important for Azure Cloud Service application to know which deployment slot it is operating in.  Worker Roles in particular need to know if certain functionality should be disabled when running in the Staging slot. This article will provide a step by step way to find that either you are in […]

1407, 2015

What is SQL Azure Database Monitoring?

By |July 14th, 2015|Cloud Monitoring, General, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

SQL Azure Database Monitoring is the collective tools, techniques and processes that help in monitoring operations and performance on SQL Azure Database. It provides insight into the utilization and statuses of different database elements and the means to ensure performance across all SQL Azure operations.

 

How SQL Azure Database Monitoring is used?

SQL Azure Database Monitoring is […]