Introduction Windows Server 2008/R2 & SQL Server 2008/R2 end of support brings challenges for organizations in terms of security, cost and regulatory compliance. Organizations must look for ways to upgrade their systems to the more
Operating hybrid clouds is a complex undertaking. To simplify operations, a common control plane solution that provides security, monitoring, identity & access management among other things is quite desirable. Arc Solution for Hybrid Cloud Azure
Azure Data Migration Service Azure has an amazing migration service which is easy to use and is suitable for various data migration needs. The service has the capability to do offline and online migration (i.e.
With companies working remotely and people around the world trying to keep in touch with family and friends during these uncertain times, demands for tools such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom are at an all-time
MySQL load balancing Load balancing is essential when 1 database cannot sufficiently process the requests and we want to distribute the load across multiple databases that are part of group replication. MySQL on Azure VMs
High availability in Azure databases Azure has multiple database services for different user scenarios. Each of them has a unique architecture and follows different storage and retrieval mechanism. Let’s go through each of these options
In this post, we are going to look at the overview of Function as a Service, a concept of serverless computing. One of the key services provided by cloud computing is Function as a Service
To be predictable, precise and to align our actions with insights gathered from agricultural data, we have Microsoft Azure FarmBeats. Microsoft FarmBeats is a data-driven solution for agriculture. It combines the benefit of AI and
Azure Policy is a service in Azure which has been designed to help you to enforce different rules and to act based on the rule effect on your Azure resources. It ensures that your azure
As an Azure Enterprise customer, you get to see our entire organizations billing data at ea.azure.com. One can log into the portal and after selecting the appropriate enrollment number, view the billing summary information across
If you are an Enterprise Azure customer, then it is likely that you are using the Enterprise APIs as well. We have been using them for past many months. Recently we had a need to
Overview: Cloud Adoption Framework and Governance With the advent of the Cloud, businesses have been steadily moving infrastructure and applications from on-premise datacenters to the Cloud. There is a myriad of reasons to move to
In this era of cloud, as an enterprise, there is a lot to consider before migrating your application to the cloud. Starting from security, compliance, reliability to total cost of ownership and expertise, there are
What is Clean Architecture? Organizing software to manage complexity and simplify the addition of new features has been a challenge that many have attempted to solve. There are several models that have been proposed such
Recently I had gone through the below error while running entity framework core migrations with .Net Standard. This might help you in case if you face the similar issue, Startup project ‘Core.Migrations’ targets framework ‘.NETStandard’.
The cloud promises to provide virtually unlimited compute power at a moment’s notice. It is thus an anti-pattern for workloads to hoard compute capacity in the cloud. Case in point is the use of virtual
Data, surely is the new oil. APIs are the hoses through which that data is transported. RESTful APIs have become popular as they promote easy adoption & integration. For an enterprise that wishes to expose
As the first in a series of podcasts discussing the benefits of digital transformation, we decided to take a closer look at the impact of end of support for Microsoft SQL Server
Source code control and various code versioning products have been around for many years and is probably an outdated topic. While these have been around for many years, products evolve, and when working with
In my earlier 3-part blog series on Reserved Instances (RI), I had talked so far about estimations, savings and the bill tracking. Another point for completeness of this series is a discussion on refunds.
We all have looked at the IoT value matrix, device and their sensor capabilities which enhances productive yield where organizations and individuals are gearing up to tap in the potential to enhance and transform
Today we are going to learn about Terraform. What is Terraform and why do you care? Hashicorp’s Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool designed for creating, managing, updating, and versioning reproducible application infrastructure. Terraform
The other day a colleague shared this article. Over the years, I have read many articles on this topic. Some give 5 differences, some will give 10 and so on. While all points written
Caching: Caching is the process of storing some data in Cache. Cache is a temporary storage component area where the data is stored so that in future, Data can be served faster instead of
On December 5th, over 300 top healthcare and life sciences leaders from around the globe gathered at the Microsoft Conference Center in NYC for the 2nd annual Digital Medicine Conference. The advent of digital
The global Healthcare IT Market size is expected to be around $53.3 billion in 2019. It has seen a significant turnaround due to advancements in technology, one of the advancements, Cloud Computing. The global
Using Azure management groups can bestow a ton on benefits in terms of consistent setup, securing and managing Azure subscriptions. However, setting up Azure management groups and using those management groups appropriately is more involved.
In continuation to part 1 and part 2, where I talked how to estimate for the Reserved Instances (RI) and how to figure out the kind of savings you can get with it. Having understood
In my earlier blog I explained a bit on RI pricing to get you started. There is more to RI Usage and pricing and I will cover the other aspects in this blog. Apart from
Microsoft has been working on making improvements to the Azure meter category and sub category names over the last few months. The details of the same are available here and instructions on how to make
Cloud Governance is a journey, not a destination. It touches almost every aspect of an enterprise’s infrastructure and IT processes. If done right it can force a positive cultural shift and can contribute to the
Migrating an entire datacenter from on-premises into the cloud is huge proposition. Don’t let anyone fool you by telling you that it’s easy. At almost every instance the topic of migration of datacenter to Azure
If you are using Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), you have an option of using Azure Reserved Instance (RI) VMs instead. Microsoft (MS) claims these can help save up to 72% of your spend. While this
Windows 10 October 2018 update is now available. You can check for it via ‘Windows Update’ or wait for it to be pushed to your device in a few weeks. Here’s a list of all
Today, i am going to write another great thing about the cloud which is availability zones. One of the great things about the cloud is the ability to be available at all times. Customers
It started off as a meeting with select few people, due to limited time that our CEO, Phani, had during his India trip, but then we decided to invite all. After all there had been lot
Often I prefer building container images and running them on a docker host that is separate from my dev laptop. There are several reasons for doing this. But chief among them are that these images
Copy an Azure Virtual Machine to a different region within Microsoft Azure. One might think this is a big thing (which might become even bigger if the source Virtual Machine uses “Managed Disks”). The whole
In this article we will learn to Clone Web Apps in Azure Portal. Clone in Azure Portal feature allows you to copy the App you want to clone to a different region or keep it
An Azure subscription is designed to host a large number of workloads. In enterprises these workloads (ex:- application workloads) often belong to separate teams, each with their own security priorities. Isolation of these workloads (VM
It’s always a pleasure to share knowledge with the community. Successfully presented Cloud Design Patterns at Global Azure Bootcamp 2018 @ Microsoft IDC Hyderabad, India. Global Azure Bootcamp is always a huge event all around the world
It’s always been a pleasure to present on Microsoft Azure Cloud. Had an amazing experience in presenting Deep Dive on Microsft Azure and Serverless Computing at App Innovation Circle 2018 event held at Microsoft India Development Center , Hyderabad
The public preview of Serial Console access for both Linux and Windows VMs has been launched. Managing and running virtual machines can be hard. But now, extensive tools are there to manage and secure the
This blog will walk you through the creation and deployment of a JavaScript Function application using the Azure Functions extension in Visual Studio Code. Prerequisites: Download Visual Studio Code Install Node.js and npm Note: To enable local debugging,
What is Just in time Virtual Machine access ? Just in time virtual machine (VM) access can be used to lock down inbound traffic to your Azure VMs, reducing exposure to attacks while providing
Hello Everyone :) Thanks for following the blog. As we know this blog is a part of Microsoft Azure Networking blog series. This blog is Part – 3 where we continue the Networking resources
Hello again :) Thanks for following the blog. As we know we have been covering Microsoft Azure Networking resources. This blog is Part – 2 where we continue the Networking resources. If you haven’t
There are some scenarios where the managed Azure Backup Services may not be a suitable fit. So let’s discuss more on the custom backup strategy which uses snapshots behind the scenes. Azure Storage provides the
Hello Everyone :) As we all know Microsoft Azure is growing day by day and expanding its length and breadth. So, we are starting with few basic series of blogs which explains more on
Continuing the previous blogs where we learned about Azure Key Vault Overview and also about Key Vault Lifecycle, lets do some hands on and understand how Key Vault is implemented in real world scenario. Today we will
Most of people might have heard or have used Azure Key Vault in some ways mostly for Encrypting a Windows/Linux VM in Azure or some might have used for securing Connection Strings. In this
What is Docker? Docker is an Open-source container technology that lets developers build, run and ship applications inside containers abstracting the virtual machines and Hypervisors and all of the overhead that is associated with it.
Azure Site Recovery is a very effective service that is offered by Microsoft in the purview of Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). While being able to migrate workloads from On-premises environments be it virtual
In the previous post of Introduction to Azure Key Vault, we learnt about the basics of Azure Key Vault, keys and Authentication mechanism. In this blog we will be continuing with Key Vault lifecycle i.e., go through the
Azure Site Recovery is a very effective service that is offered by Microsoft in the purview of Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). While being able to migrate workloads from On-premises environments be it virtual
The Azure Resource manager model allows you to logically organize resources within a subscription. Read on to understand how tagging Azure Resources works. To help you manage your instances, images, and other Azure resources, you
In the world of virtualization, there are many platforms such as Integrity Virtual Machines, Oracle VM server for x86, Power VM etc. This blog focuses on VMWare and Hyper-V world of virtualization. VMWare vSphere: The
Azure Key Vault is a service that enables us to store & manage cryptographic keys and secrets in one central secure vault. All the sensitive data is stored on physical hardware security modules (HSM) –
In traditional enterprise scenarios, organizations used to store their data on tapes for backup for long term retention. But, over the years that data has started to grow exponentially. Azure Backup is a robust and
ARM or Azure Resource Manager is a new way of building and grouping resources in Azure. A resource is single entity in the infrastructure like a virtual machine or storage account and so on. And
Azure Support Requests A brief guide for those of you who do not know how to raise Azure Support requests and manage them. It’s there but it’s not there. What I mean is it’s easy
What is Azure Disk Encryption The intention of this post is to throw some light on Azure Disk Encryption and it’s features. So Let’s talk a little about disk encryption. Why Azure Disk Encryption ?
There are a lot of questions asked when you try to convince a customer to setup their on premise unbreakable DMZs on Azure or any other public cloud. The IT teams especially are very particular
Download the eBook here. One of the first questions that I get from customers who are serious about Microsoft Azure Cloud offering is “Where do I start?”, “What is an Azure subscription?” When you swipe
The New Azure Preview Portal. The user experience for the new azure preview portal (portal.azure.com) is quite different than the current management portal (manage.azure.com). I am no UX expert by any stretch but I wanted
On 2/20/2015 Microsoft announced release of additional set of role based access controls. In my previous blog post we talked about RBAC concepts. In this blog post I wanted to highlight the importance of these
Microsoft Azure RBAC What is Azure RBAC? RBAC is role based access control. A bit of history to begin with might help understand this better. Before RBAC there were two basic roles in Azure- 1)
In Windows Azure there are three options for caching- Shared Cache Service, In-role caching and Azure Cache Service: “Shared Caching Service”, this was caching on a shared cluster and one could access the cache using
Just noticed today, right now (22OCT2013), that the WindowsAzure portal now filters the view based on Azure Active Directory. Have a look at the graphic below and you will understand what I am talking about-
Many of our customers have started talking about Big Data, and how they can best make sense of the data they have collected over many years. Apache Hadoop is one among the tools we
The Information Technology world has seen many revolutions- the early calculators, telephones, printers, scanners, fax machines, the MAC, the PC and so on. And each advancement in the process of evolution did depend on work/knowledge
Before 4th Feb 2013, the way you would deploy a Virtual Machine from VM depot was by using a command line tool. Check VM depot help documentation for detailed steps involved. The “VM depot” was
Supported OS versions on Windows Azure IaaS Recently I was starting to do a POC for migrating to Windows Azure for a customer and I gathered they still were on Windows Server 2003. Of course,
You cannot start learning about Windows Azure without having a high level overview or the big picture about Cloud Computing in general. Start here “Cloud Computing: The Big Picture” by David Chappell. David Chappell is
There isn’t much that scares the developers, but I know testing makes that short list for sure. Today, if I were to ask you to web test or load test your application, the thought itself
Today, I am going to introduce working with Azure Service Bus Topics using the CloudFx Framework published by Microsoft which makes building enterprise class, truly scalable applications much simpler over the existing Azure infrastructure. If
The Windows Azure storage SDK 1.7 release has come out with a host of new features and one of the key features is the ability to issue Shared Access Signatures on the Table storage (as
Caching – We all know the importance of caching in Web applications today. De-stress your backend database servers is not only the need of hour, but an important design decision. Caching is often not that
This post is a learning/ inspiration from the presentation by Clemens Vasters and Abhishek Lal at TechEd NA 2012, to view that complete session click here. On June the 7th 2012 Microsoft announced plethora of
Steps to upload a web site to “Windows Azure Web Sites” using FTP: 1. Open Visual Studio and create a simple ASP.net application. Change the mode to release and build it. 2. Go to the
With this launch we can say that the new Microsoft Windows Azure is the complete, comprehensive and versatile cloud offering. It’s just freakin-awesome! First things first: The landing page on windowsazure.com and the management portal both
When you try to deploy a windows azure service, you will be prompted with the below window asking you to choose a region or affinity group for deploying your service. Currently there are 8 sub-regions (If
How does the Windows Azure billing work? You develop and test your applications/ service(s). Be it a windows forms or WPF app consuming services or be it an asp.net application, you end up hosting it
I wanted to do a blog post on “Windows Azure” explaining it from bottom-up. This is first of the “tell me like I am a three year old series”- by tell me like I am
This blog post explains what to do if you get any of the following exceptions when trying to install Windows Azure (or you may get the 2nd exception below when you do F5 for your
I will be doing a Windows Azure bootcamp on 5th May at Microsoft Jubliee hills office. This bootcamp is strictly for the members of the MUGH (Microsoft User Group Hyderabad) community. And since this is
One of the best ways to start learning is by knowing the evolution of a technology. Below is the timeline for Windows Azure platform right from the day when it was announced at PDC 2008
Since my focus is all things Azure, I wanted to consolidate the various Azure sessions happening at #TechEdIn. In this #techedin, in addition to Windows 8, one thing which will be covered in a big