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How To Monitor Web App Availability on Microsoft Azure
Read more: How To Monitor Web App Availability on Microsoft AzureDowntime is a risk faced by every business that serves customers on the web. The average website goes down for three hours a month because web hosting infrastructure isn’t wholly reliable and networks are even less so. Azure is more resilient than the garden-variety web hosting provider, with SLAs that promise less than 43 minutes…
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Azure News Roundup – July 10, 2020
Read more: Azure News Roundup – July 10, 2020Welcome to our weekly roundup of the latest news and updates in the larger Azure ecosystem, where we cover some of the big announcements over the past 2 weeks. Advancing Azure service quality with artificial intelligence: AIOps Microsoft has created an AIOps team to collaborate broadly across Azure engineering teams and partnered with Microsoft Research…
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How Azure SLAs Can Help You to Achieve Optimal Uptime and Availability
Read more: How Azure SLAs Can Help You to Achieve Optimal Uptime and AvailabilityMicrosoft Azure is designed to minimize downtime, and Microsoft offers guarantees about the maximum amount of downtime service users should expect in the form of Service Level Agreements. It provides services and guidance that help Azure users to decrease downtime and offers better SLAs when Azure users take advantage of redundancy features built into the…
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An Introduction To Microsoft SQL Server Monitoring
Read more: An Introduction To Microsoft SQL Server MonitoringThis post is a high-level summary of our white paper on SQL database monitoring. For more depth and detail, you can download the full white paper. Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most widely adopted database platforms in the world. For many years an excellent database engine for Windows-centric data centers, today SQL Server…
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Azure News Roundup – June 26, 2020
Read more: Azure News Roundup – June 26, 2020Welcome to our latest roundup of all the major news events in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem over the past two weeks. Microsoft confirms acquisition of CyberX to boost security in its Azure IoT business Microsoft’s interest in the company touches on two key areas: IT services for large enterprises, and cybersecurity — specifically cybersecurity leveraging…
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Five Azure Monitoring and Incident Management Tools You Need To Know About
Read more: Five Azure Monitoring and Incident Management Tools You Need To Know AboutAzure Monitor is the platform’s central monitoring, notification, and alerting system. It brings together tools for turning telemetry—logs and metrics—from across Azure into actionable information. But, despite Azure Monitor’s power, SMBs struggle to use it effectively. Consequently, they lack visibility into the state of their infrastructure, and, without that visibility, it is difficult or impossible…
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Optimize Azure Infrastructure Security with Azure Security Center Recommendations
Read more: Optimize Azure Infrastructure Security with Azure Security Center RecommendationsVIAcode recommends that Azure users implement Azure Security Center. Security Center provides a comprehensive security management service with advanced threat protection. It helps Azure users to secure their evolving infrastructure against the range of sophisticated attacks it is likely to face. Among the most useful aspects of the Security Center are security recommendations. All Security…
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Azure News Roundup – June 12, 2020
Read more: Azure News Roundup – June 12, 2020Welcome to our Azure news weekly roundup with the latest events and stories in the Microsoft and Azure space! Follow us on Twitter for more great stories like these as they happen. We also recently launched our Azure Snapshot tool, which can give you optimized suggestions for your Azure environment in as little as 30…
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The 4 Most Common Problems in Managing Azure
Read more: The 4 Most Common Problems in Managing AzureVIAcode’s Azure Managed Services target the Azure infrastructure problems we see most often. Businesses migrate to Azure with clear goals, but they find it challenging to maximize the platform’s potential. We aim to help our clients to solve their Azure infrastructure problems and fully exploit the cost, security, and process advantages of hosting cloud infrastructure…
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The 6 Most Common Azure Security Problems
Read more: The 6 Most Common Azure Security ProblemsMicrosoft Azure users often find their cloud infrastructure grows faster than they expected. Because Azure cloud infrastructure is flexible and easy to provision, they discover new ways to use it, moving more data and code into the cloud as time goes by. How Secure is Azure Cloud? Unfortunately, security vulnerabilities grow with the growing infrastructure.…