The worlds of on-premises and cloud environments are steadily growing closer and closer together. Today’s businesses are looking for streamlined, powerful, robust environments that span from on-premises to the cloud. They want a seamless experience for their production workloads to be able to run “anywhere” [...]
The tremendous operational features and functionality of the public cloud do not simply stop with high-availability mechanisms. One of the very powerful capabilities of cloud infrastructure is the seamless ability to provide scalability. Since cloud infrastructure does not involve “racking and stacking” servers and is [...]
Organizations today are producing more data than ever before. In fact, most industries are using technology that has allowed them to operate an unprecedented scale, efficiency, and effectiveness than ever before possible. One of the challenges that businesses today face with the amount of data [...]
Microsoft Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering allows organizations to essentially have a virtual infrastructure environment in the cloud. As opposed to an on-premises environment, the Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering from Microsoft allows businesses to have access to an environment to run virtual machine without the capital expenditure required to [...]
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform has become a major player in the available options that businesses consider for hosting their business-critical platforms in the public cloud today. While Microsoft has been playing catchup with Amazon’s AWS public cloud, they have certainly come a long way in [...]
Public cloud technology is literally reshaping how developers are writing applications and how IT operations provisions infrastructure for development platforms as well as business-critical applications. New public cloud-driven technologies have come onto the scene that is driving a shift away from the traditional monolithic applications [...]
Azure SQL Database is intelligent, fully managed relational cloud database service that provides the broadest SQL Server engine compatibility. Using SQL database in Azure you will get the advantage of built-in intelligence that learns app patterns and adapts to maximize performance, reliability, and data protection. [...]
Introduction Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is a security system that requires more than one method of authentication to verify the user’s identity for a login or other transaction. The goal of MFA is to create a layered defense and make it more difficult for an unauthorized [...]
Today’s disaster recovery plans have the possibility to store data in more places than ever before. Thanks to the proliferation of public cloud and cloud storage, most organizations are able to utilize public cloud storage as “offsite” storage for backup data. In fact, this is [...]
Organizations have a wide range of options for dipping their toes into cloud computing. More businesses are looking at cloud solutions if they have not already embraced the cloud for running production workloads and services. The public cloud environments offered up by today’s providers provide [...]
