2603, 2019

How to scale read workloads in Azure MySQL

By |March 26th, 2019|Cloud Platforms, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Read replicas are now generally available to all Azure Database for MySQL users. They are specially designed to make it easy to horizontally scale out beyond a single database server. This may be useful in applications that have more read operations than write ones such as BI reporting applications.

This feature enables continuous asynchronous replication of […]

2103, 2019

Azure Lab Services general availability

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

Azure Lab Services is a cloud solution that lets users set up preconfigured access to virtual machines and access all VMs across multiple labs from a single place.

Customers use the service to conduct classes, hands-on labs, conferences, sales demos, early trials, and events and scale up to hundreds of virtual machines for their attendees.
Top reasons […]

1403, 2019

Azure Data Factory quick start using templates

By |March 14th, 2019|Cloud Platforms, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

It is a common practice for business organizations to utilize repeat business processes. It is important to be able to start quickly with repetitive workflows. For this reason, Microsoft Azure now provides support for templates in Azure Data Factory. Templated setups improve developer productivity along with reducing development time for repeat processes.

The new feature enables […]

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 […]

1001, 2019

Configure automated availability deployments for SQL Server on Azure VMs

By |January 10th, 2019|IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

The high availability architectures are designed to be available even during the hardware, database or network failures. Azure VM instances offer 99.9% availability impacted by the SLA in three scenarios:

unplanned hardware maintenance
unexpected downtime
planned maintenance

To maintain redundancy one can group virtual machines into Availability Sets so that when a planned or unplanned event occurs at […]

2112, 2018

Azure SQL Data Warehouse automatic performance monitoring

By |December 21st, 2018|Cloud Monitoring, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

Data warehouse performance monitoring and management are crucial for the overall health of the data environment and impact users’ ability to efficiently draw meaningful data insights.

Announced for preview Query Store feature provides customers with insight on query plan choice and performance by tracking queries, query plans, runtime statistics, and query history. Query Store combines a set of internal stores and […]

1912, 2018

Automatic updates for Azure Site Recovery

By |December 19th, 2018|IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

Staying up-to-date with the latest software releases is one of the biggest hassles for administrators of the cloud services. Downloading the latest software and performing frequent upgrades is even more cumbersome if downtime is involved in the process.

Azure Site Recovery provides a monthly release with the latest features and enhancements. This means one would need to […]

1312, 2018

New capabilities in IoT application development

By |December 13th, 2018|General, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

Nowadays, when IoT applications are massively moving from proof of concept to production, massive amounts of data are being collected and processes and environments are optimized with new solutions. New devices and sensors are becoming more and more sophisticated and designed to run at the AI edge.

With big investments in IoT at the beginning of the […]

1212, 2018

CloudMonix adds support for Azure Application Gateway monitoring and automation

By |December 12th, 2018|IT Management, Microsoft Azure, New Features, News & Press|0 Comments

 

Azure Application Gateway provides application-level routing and load balancing services that let customers build scalable and highly-available web front ends in Azure. Traditional monitoring setup creates challenges as it involves defining parameters based on the expected behavior, setting up dashboards to visualize the data and configuring alerts and notifications. This approach has its limits and […]

712, 2018

The Business Critical tier becomes the optimal choice for mission-critical SQL workloads

By |December 7th, 2018|IT Management, Microsoft Azure, New Features|0 Comments

 

Microsoft has recently announced the Business Critical service tier in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance in the general availability. Being a new deployment option in the SQL Database, Managed Instance streamlines SQL Server workloads migration from on-premises to the cloud. It also combines the native SQL server features and capabilities with the benefits of a fully managed database service.

The […]