• 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

    Microsoft 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?

    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

    Microsoft 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?

    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?

    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…

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    SCOM in the Cloud: Integrating SCOM Alerts With Azure Monitor

    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a powerful tool. Businesses that use SCOM to monitor on-premises infrastructure naturally want to preserve their functionality when they migrate to the cloud. Those with a mixed environment that includes VMs lifted to the cloud and serverless resources want to monitor all of their infrastructure in one place.…

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  • Optimize Infrastructure Management with Microsoft Operations Management Suite

    Microsoft’s Operations Management Suite brings together a collection of cloud-based services that help businesses to monitor and manage their on-premise and cloud infrastructure in one place. Monitoring solutions such as System Center Operations Management (SCOM) and Azure Monitor offer complex and powerful functionality, and Azure provides numerous intuitive management interfaces. However, it can be challenging…

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    AWS vs. Azure: Why Migrate Your Applications To Microsoft Azure

    Amazon Web Services was first introduced to the world with the release of Simple Queue Service in 2004. Relaunched in 2006 with the addition of S3 and EC2, AWS quickly grew into the dominant cloud platform. Microsoft was slower off the blocks than Amazon. Azure was announced in 2008, released in 2010 as Windows Azure,…

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    Microsoft Gives Users More Control Over Their Cloud Environment With Azure Dedicated Hosts

    Azure Virtual Machines are the center-piece service of Azure’s public cloud platform, allowing users to launch flexible virtual machines in a wide variety of specifications. However, for some Azure users, Virtual Machines doesn’t provide the control or the regulatory compliance they need.  To fill that gap, Microsoft recently announced the introduction of Azure Dedicated Hosts…

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