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Infographic: How to Reduce Azure Cloud Spend
Read more: Infographic: How to Reduce Azure Cloud SpendMany people ask us, “How do you deliver 30% cost savings on average?” We created an infographic to show in numbers how we accomplish it. The questions we ask: Does your Azure spend stay within budget? Gartner reports that 70% of cloud spend is wasted each year due to poor architecture and overprovisioned resources. How…
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Harnessing the Power of Data to Drive Digital Transformation
Read more: Harnessing the Power of Data to Drive Digital TransformationFor companies with multiple automated sites, Microsoft Azure is the key to transforming operations to slash overhead costs and achieve operational efficiencies. Learn from the experience of SitePro, a software company that uses Azure to unify automation systems and deliver remote, real-time access to data to improve decision making and business health. In this video,…
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Microsoft Customer Story: SitePro
Read more: Microsoft Customer Story: SiteProHow did the software platform, SitePro, find their competitive edge? By making themselves the “one-stop shop” for oil and gas companies to combine what used to be multiple systems–each operated by a different third party–into a single, scalable, integrated system. For their customers, this means faster setup times for new facilities and efficient monitoring of…
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Increase Your ROI With Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Read more: Increase Your ROI With Azure SQL Database Managed InstanceSwitching from an on-premises server to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance can result in an ROI of 212% and post-migration payback within six months. How is this possible? The brilliance behind Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is its customizability. Choose and pay for exactly the space and computing power you need, while utilizing options…
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Happy 10th Birthday VIAcode and Azure!!
Read more: Happy 10th Birthday VIAcode and Azure!!Azure is celebrating its 10th birthday this month. In February of 2010, Microsoft launched Azure and our lives were changed forever! Our company VIAcode was founded the same year and we have been growing up with Azure. To celebrate we are launching a weekly newsletter. You can register to get it directly in your inbox. It will provide…
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The Hidden Costs Of Ignoring Cloud Optimization
Read more: The Hidden Costs Of Ignoring Cloud OptimizationMicrosoft Azure is a flexible cloud platform that gives businesses access to an incredible array of infrastructure and services. They can deploy any amount of infrastructure in any combination at any time. If a business has an infrastructure challenge, Azure has a solution, whether as a general infrastructure service like Azure Virtual Machines or a…
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What Is Azure Cost Optimization?
Read more: What Is Azure Cost Optimization?We recently developed a free optimization assessment – the Azure Snapshot – that gives you recommend actions that you can implement immediately for Azure security, monitoring, and cost optimization. Azure cost optimization is the process of assessing an organization’s infrastructure needs, the infrastructure it has deployed, and its current cloud costs. The goal is to…
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7 Quick Microsoft Azure Security Best Practices for 2020
Read more: 7 Quick Microsoft Azure Security Best Practices for 2020Microsoft Azure operates a shared responsibility security model. Microsoft provides a secure infrastructure. It makes available tools and services to help users to build and manage secure cloud infrastructure deployments. But it is the responsibility of Azure users to manage their cloud infrastructure in line with security best practices. It is possible to deploy secure…
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Does Your Business Suffer From Technical Debt?
Read more: Does Your Business Suffer From Technical Debt?What is Technical Debt? Technical debt is a cost imposed on a business because of the technical decisions it made in the past. IT leaders and developers use the metaphor of technical debt to describe the present-day consequences of past infrastructure and software decisions. There are many costs to being stuck with old and inadequate…
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Azure vs. Google Cloud: Which Is Right for Your Business?
Read more: Azure vs. Google Cloud: Which Is Right for Your Business?Amazon kicked off the cloud revolution with the introduction of the first AWS service in 2006. Windows Azure, later renamed Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform soon followed. Azure was announced in 2008, the same year Google introduced App Engine, a collection of cloud tools for developing and hosting web applications on Google’s infrastructure. Both…