Category: Azure DevOps

Reliability in Microsoft Azure — Have Confidence in Your Cloud-Based Systems

Microsoft Azure has security and reliability built into its core. It is one of the reasons that so many businesses migrate and trust their mission-critical systems and data to Azure. However, functionality alone isn’t enough to drive the best results for Azure users. It’s critical that organizations using Microsoft Azure get the right tools, information, […]

The Importance of Measuring Effectiveness of Your Azure Cloud Services: Cost, Security, and Operations

Does 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 […]

Azure Cloud Cost Optimization After ShareGate Overcast

ShareGate 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 […]

The Well-Architected Azure Framework Series: Operational Excellence

VIAcode 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 […]

VIAcode Webinar: A Holistic Approach to Operating Azure: People, Processes, and Tools

Microsoft 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 […]

VIAcode Webinar: A Practical Game Plan for Building an Azure Cloud Center of Excellence

Learn 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, […]

Growing SQL Server: Features from 2008 to 2017

Over the past nine years, Microsoft has been working hard to continually improve its SQL Server offerings to ensure SQL Server is ready to meet the opportunities and challenges of the modern age. It has embraced the benefits of cloud computing by adding cloud as a deployment option, risen to modern security challenges by implementing […]

Weekly Roundup – Mar 27

We have a new ebook on Cost Optimization, Best Practices for Azure. Are you looking for ideas to save money in Azure? The ebook has 5 best practices for cost optimization as well as a cost optimization model. You can download your copy here: Get More Info Get more information from VIAcode. Name* First Last […]

How IoT Can Help Your Organization Keep Customers Coming Back For More

Staying in control of your IoT assets is important. That’s why you should have the industry-leading data protection features and standards of Azure IoT Central. It acts as a single pane of glass for your enterprise IoT and gives you the connectivity to drive transformation. It’s not always easy adopting new solutions; that’s why you […]

Increase Your ROI With Azure SQL Database Managed Instance

Switching 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 […]