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 […]

106, 2018

Azure Migrate – Azure Migration Assistant

By |June 1st, 2018|Azure How To, Cloud Platforms, General, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure Migrate is a new service which helps users to get better insights and guidance to assist in migrating to Azure. Until now the service has been in a limited preview that draw positive feedback and Microsoft recently made it broadly available and there is no need to request access anymore.

The prominent features of Azure […]

3105, 2018

Get Notified Of Azure Service Incidents

By |May 31st, 2018|Azure How To, Cloud Automation, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure service incidents may impact customer resources and it is critical customers are equipped to mitigate the potential harm by following the guidelines provided by Azure. Azure lets users create and generate notifications of these issues. This service is known as Service Health alert and it can help you to get notified of service incidents, […]

1605, 2018

Connect Amazon VPC to Azure using dedicated VPN connection

By |May 16th, 2018|AWS, Azure How To, Cloud Platforms, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

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

Insight into the environment
Azure connection setup
AWS connection setup
Testing the […]

903, 2018

Top 5 Performance Metrics Every Azure Administrator Should Monitor

By |March 9th, 2018|Azure How To, Cloud Monitoring, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Microsoft Azure is an enterprise-class cloud computing infrastructure that provides robust IT resources for modern business applications.  Although Azure SLA promises the supreme quality of services, Azure administrators play their part in ensuring the optimal performance of their applications. So as an Azure administrator, how would you evaluate the performance of your Microsoft Azure infrastructure? […]

1202, 2018

CosmosDB Table API: Optimal Solution for Storage Problem

By |February 12th, 2018|Azure News, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure Cosmos DB Table API is a remarkable solution of storage problems and it’s available as a production-ready solution by Microsoft. The API gives several benefits which were not found in Azure Table storage. 5 well-defined consistency models, dedicated worldwide throughput, single-digit millisecond latency, and turnkey global key distribution are the major advantages which users […]

2910, 2017

What are the Features of the Public Preview of Azure Storage Metrics in Azure Monitor?

By |October 29th, 2017|Azure News, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure Monitor users can use Azure Storage Metrics from now on. The service is available in limited regions of United States including, West US, Central US, East US, West US 2, and North Central US. The compass of service will be extended to the other areas soon. Basically, Azure Monitor is a single source of […]

1610, 2017

How to Get Faster Compute Optimized Performance Tier for Azure SQL Data Warehouse?

By |October 16th, 2017|Azure News, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

The analytics demand of companies has increased the importance of computing resources to efficiently process and visualize the datasets. Dallas Zoo is the best example who use and save data for the tracking of the elephant. They have to use data according to weather, attendance, and moon cycle. Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a faster […]

2609, 2017

How the Perspective Analysis becomes Easy Azure Time Series Insight with Perspective View

By |September 26th, 2017|Azure News, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Perspective view enables analysists to analyze data in a comprehensive way and lets the engineers perform complex tasks associated with data. Multitasking, multistep analysis, time-based and pattern-based analysis, and viewing data are some prominent tasks which become easy with the help of perspective analysis. On the other hand,  Azure Time Series Insights has shown the […]