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Microsoft Slashes Prices on Select Azure VMs
Microsoft just announced price reductions up to 17% on the latest version of the popular Azure D-series virtual machines. The Dv2 Virtual Machines are based on the newest generation Intel Xeon processors sport 35% faster CPUs than D “v1” virtual … Continue reading
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Automated Everything with SQL Server on IaaS VMs
COREY SANDERSDirector of Program Management, Azure Today, we are excited to announce support for automated backup and automated patching, available directly in the portal for SQL Server Azure Virtual Machines. Both of these features are built with the new SQL … Continue reading
PowerShell Seen as Key to Azure Automation
The Azure Automation service currently depends on “20 Azure Automation cmdlets,” which allow the scripting of repeatable actions or runbooks on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. However, when Microsoft releases the Azure Automation service as a product, then that number … Continue reading
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Microsoft Cloud – Which SSO option is right for your company?
As IT organizations begin to implement Microsoft Cloud services, the need for a single sign-on capability increases. Single sign-on, or SSO, allows users to login once with their account and password and gain access all of their systems without having … Continue reading
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Trouble getting started with Microsoft Azure?
Cloud 9 has helped several organizations save money and become more agile by moving their on-premises systems to Microsoft Azure, both Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions. We’ve found that while PaaS solutions provide … Continue reading
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Backup and Restore of Azure Virtual Machines
Microsoft recently announced a new capability in Azure that provides the ability to create snapshots of running Virtual Machines (OS and data disks). It is implemented as a specialized image that can be then provisioned using the New-AzureQuickVM cmdlet. The functionality … Continue reading
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IaaS for Azure and inclusion of cloud use in enterprise agreements has helped Microsoft’s cloud services gain momentum, says general manager Mike Neil. Microsoft’s Mike Neil said the Windows Azure cloud may have joined the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) competition only last … Continue reading
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By 2016, most new IT spending will be in the cloud
Nice article I came across which I would like to share with everyone.. Application migration will be the biggest part of the effort, and business will continue to be the main driver According to Gartner, “The use of cloud computing … Continue reading
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Azure Security and Piracy whitepaper
The Cloud Security Alliance published the Cloud Control Matrix, to support consumers in the evaluation of cloud services and to identify questions prudent to have answered before moving to cloud services. In response to this publication, Microsoft has created this … Continue reading
Rethinking Cloud Service Level Agreements – Cloud Tech News
The Three Contexts for a Cloud SLA This confusion over what belongs in Cloud SLAs centers on the fact that there are very different contexts for SLAs depending on the heritage of the organization writing them: The managed hosting provider … Continue reading
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