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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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5 Reasons You Should Migrate Your Applications to Microsoft Azure
Are your business’s critical applications hosted on an aging server that everyone is afraid to touch in case something goes wrong? Have you been putting off upgrading your server because of worries about downtime, cost, and disruption? The bad news is that you will have to bite the bullet sooner or later. The good news […]
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How the Azure Cloud Helps Businesses Secure Their Infrastructure
Businesses face a bewildering array of infrastructure security threats. Criminals and other bad actors invest substantial resources into developing sophisticated attacks and malware, while businesses struggle to meet the challenges of an ever-evolving threat landscape with vast amounts of money in play. Bromium, a cybersecurity company, estimates that the cybercrime economy was worth $1.5 trillion […]
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Introducing the New SQL Assessment API For Microsoft SQL Server
VIAcode is happy to announce the public availability of the SQL Assessment API, a new extension of Microsoft SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) that allows SQL Server users to programmatically evaluate the configuration of SQL Server instances against a configurable set of rules.
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VIAcode Will Migrate Your Applications To Azure Cloud For Free
Does legacy IT infrastructure frustrate your efforts to grow and evolve business-critical applications? Are you paying too much for on-premises or colocated servers? Migrating to the Azure cloud will free your business from legacy infrastructure. With Azure, businesses iterate quickly, scale smoothly, and take control of infrastructure spending.
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Cloud Migration Checklist: a Step by Step Guide to Rehosting with Azure
This article is the last in a series that focuses on Rehosting To Azure. In previous articles, we looked at The Benefits of Rehosting to Azure, How a Cloud Migration Assessment Will Help Avoid Mistakes, and Best Practices for Building a Cloud Migration Strategy.
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