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Operational Excellence: A Pillar of the Well-Architectured Azure Framework
Read more: Operational Excellence: A Pillar of the Well-Architectured Azure FrameworkAs organizations increasingly move business critical systems to the cloud in order to realize efficiency and performance gains, those same business systems are becoming increasingly complex. In order to help manage this complexity and help organizations ensure their systems successfully meet business and user requirements, Microsoft introduced the Well-Architected Azure Framework, a set of principles…
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A Practical Game Plan for Building an Azure Cloud Center of Excellence
Read more: A Practical Game Plan for Building an Azure Cloud Center of ExcellenceOne of our latest Azure cloud services webinars focuses on the Cloud Center of Excellence framework. In it, VIAcode CEO Victor Mushkatin explains exactly what a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) is and how it helps organizations achieve their cloud objectives. By introducing a practical game plan for organizations unsure of how to adapt the…
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The Importance of Measuring Effectiveness of Your Azure Cloud Services: Cost, Security, and Operations
Read more: The Importance of Measuring Effectiveness of Your Azure Cloud Services: Cost, Security, and OperationsDoes your organization achieve its cloud spending, operational, and security objectives? It’s an important question many cloud service users struggle to answer because they don’t have the data to formulate an accurate response. In many cases, businesses do not know how to measure their cloud operations. As a result, they struggle to optimize their cloud…
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Azure Cloud Cost Optimization After ShareGate Overcast
Read more: Azure Cloud Cost Optimization After ShareGate OvercastShareGate recently announced that the ShareGate Overcast tool will be discontinued on June 1, 2021. Overcast is an Azure cloud spending analysis tool, and its imminent retirement led many in the VIAcode community to ask us about Overcast alternatives. In this article, we’d like to take a look at some of the ways Azure users…
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The Well-Architected Azure Framework Series: Operational Excellence
Read more: The Well-Architected Azure Framework Series: Operational ExcellenceVIAcode CEO Victor Mushkatin recently hosted a webinar for cloud developers and operations professionals to explore operational excellence in the context of the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework and Azure Cloud Centers of Excellence. In the webinar, Victor describes the role operational excellence plays within a comprehensive cloud optimization framework. He then shows Azure users how…
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VIAcode Webinar: A Holistic Approach to Operating Azure: People, Processes, and Tools
Read more: VIAcode Webinar: A Holistic Approach to Operating Azure: People, Processes, and ToolsMicrosoft and third-party developers offer tools to support users as they manage and optimize Microsoft Azure cloud environments. But your Cloud Center of Excellence needs more than tools and people to build an effective cloud environment; both have to be integrated through collaborative processes that support your business’s cloud objectives. In our latest webinar, Victor…
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VIAcode Webinar: A Practical Game Plan for Building an Azure Cloud Center of Excellence
Read more: VIAcode Webinar: A Practical Game Plan for Building an Azure Cloud Center of ExcellenceLearn how to overcome cloud challenges to build a Cloud Center of Excellence strategy tailored to your organization’s unique constraints with Victor Mushkatin, VIAcode CEO and former Group Program Manager for the Microsoft Azure Product Team. The webinar, A Practical Game Plan for Building an Azure Cloud Center of Excellence, begins at 1:00 pm EST on Wednesday,…
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Azure News Roundup – October 3, 2020
Read more: Azure News Roundup – October 3, 202014 Top Azure Announcements From Microsoft Ignite 2020 Here are the top announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2020: Microsoft Azure expands its cloud computing portfolio with additional multi-cloud and multi-edge hybrid capabilities including Azure Arc and Azure Stack updates. Microsoft Azure is Multiple Clouds – Public, US Gov, China and Germany Did you know that Microsoft…
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8 Ways to Optimize Azure Cloud Infrastructure
Read more: 8 Ways to Optimize Azure Cloud InfrastructureOnce a business has migrated to Azure, its attention often turns to optimization. Are Azure’s services and servers performing as expected, as secure as possible, and as reliable as they could be? There is usually room for improvement, and that is the goal of Azure optimization. In this article, we consider what Azure optimization means…
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Azure News Roundup – September 18, 2020
Read more: Azure News Roundup – September 18, 2020Visual Studio Codespaces is consolidating into GitHub Codespaces If you’re an existing Visual Studio Codespaces user, you can start your transition to GitHub Codespaces now and the current Azure offering will be retired in February 2021. Get Started with Azure Bicep – Alternative to ARM Templates Azure Bicep is the latest tool from Microsoft for…