Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a transformative force and differentiator across industries. Whether you’re developing software for business, healthcare, finance, ente… Read More

In the age of rapid digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) stands out as a transformative force, redefining industries, enhancing efficiency, and driving innovation. The respon… Read More

Since 2019, the cybersecurity insurance market has seen significant growth. The surge in demand for cyber insurance policies was driven in part by low rates and broad coverage terms, often u… Read More

In today’s digital age, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force, revolutionizing industries and unlocking new possibilities. One of the leading platforms dri… Read More

In a previous post, we provided an overview of Azure Sphere and shared a few use cases showing the value of this comprehensive IoT security solution, including a hardware platform, operating… Read More

If you are building or deploying Internet of Things (IoT) devices that require a high level of security and reliability, you may need Azure Sphere. Azure Sphere is a platform developed by Mi… Read More

Your data strategy is a framework for effectively managing and analyzing your data in the cloud. It helps identify the most appropriate services to meet your data needs and outlines best pra… Read More

Managing desktops and devices can be a challenging task, especially for organizations with distributed workforces and/or multiple locations. Traditional on-premise desktop management solutio… Read More

As organizations continue to migrate workloads to the cloud, proper governance becomes increasingly crucial to maintain control and ensure compliance. Microsoft Azure offers a wide array of… Read More

Managing costs in Azure is a crucial aspect of cloud computing that is often overlooked, yet can have a significant impact on your organization’s bottom line. Recent research shows tha… Read More

As we’ve discussed previously, organizations need to consider several factors before choosing to implement a cloud center of excellence (CCoE). In our experience over the past twenty y… Read More

We often hear from organizations that are trying to mature their cloud practice and are wondering if a cloud center of excellence (CCoE) is necessary. This is not a straight-forward yes-or-n… Read More

The average cost of a data breach is $4.35 million, according to a recent IBM Security study. As this cost continues to climb every year, organizations necessarily need to implement safeguar… Read More

In a previous post, we talked about the challenges of migrating from one cloud platform to another. In this post, we’ll address a more specific example – migrating from Amazon We… Read More

Migrating from one cloud platform to another can be a complex and time-consuming process, particularly if you have a large and complex infrastructure. Goals for the migration may include a r… Read More

In today’s highly connected, SaaS/IaaS/PaaS-enabled world, the adage “every company is a software company” has never been more true. However, it’s the independent sof… Read More

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… Read More

COVID has ushered in unprecedented cybersecurity risk. Throughout the past two years of the global pandemic, data hacking incidents have increased by 600% according to industry reports.&nbsp&hell…Read More

As organizations increasingly move business critical systems to the cloud in order to realize efficiency and performance gains, those same business systems are becoming increasingly complex… Read More

One of our latest Azure cloud services webinars focuses on the Cloud Center of Excellence framework. In it, VIAcode CEO Victor Mushkatin explains exactly what a Cloud Center of Excellence (C… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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-Architec… Read More

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 an… Read More

In A Practical Game Plan for Building an Azure Cloud Center of Excellence, Victor Mushkatin shares his expertise to help your business implement a practical and pragmatic approach to cloud e… Read More

14 Top Azure Announcements From Microsoft Ignite 2020 Here are the top announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2020: Microsoft Azure expands its cloud computing portfolio with additional multi-c… Read More

Once a business has migrated to Azure, its attention often turns to optimization. Are Azure’s services and servers performing as expected, as secure as possible, and as reliable as the… Read More

Visual Studio Codespaces is consolidating into GitHub Codespaces If you’re an existing Visual Studio Codespaces user, you can start your transition to GitHub Codespaces now and the cur… Read More

Azure cost optimization is a massive concern for businesses, especially if they have recently migrated to Azure. Managing Azure costs is very different from managing the cost of on-premises… Read More

Universal Shifting to Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Platform for Live-Action, Animation Production The goal is to let creatives collaborate more easily and efficiently across geographic regi… Read More

Over the last few months, IT professionals have more often managed servers from living rooms and bedrooms than offices and data centers. COVID–19 has made remote workers of us all, amp… Read More

Every two weeks we curate some of the best news and events in the Azure ecosystem into this bi-weekly news roundup. We cover industry trends, new Azure tools and releases, and interesting pe… Read More

Azure Network Security Groups (NSGs) are flexible firewall rules users can apply to subnets and resources within an Azure Virtual Network. They allow users to specify which incoming and outg… Read More

Would you know if your company’s Azure infrastructure was compromised? For many businesses, the honest answer is no. Attackers do their best to hide, stealthily exfiltrating data and i… Read More

Curious about what’s been going on in the world of Azure over the past couple of weeks? Here are some interesting developments and headlines from the broader Microsoft and Azure ecosys… Read More

In 2018, the Office for Civil Rights collected Health Accountability and Enforcement Act (HIPAA) settlements worth $30 million, including a record $16 million settlement. Under the GDPR, bus… Read More

Perfectly reliable IT infrastructure doesn’t exist. If you wait long enough, even the best-engineered server and network components fail. Failure tends to occur on a so-called bathtub… Read More

Welcome to our latest collection of Azure news and announcements from the past two weeks. It’s been a busy time between Microsoft Inspire this week along with the end of the 2020 fisca… Read More

Microsoft SQL Server supports the essential applications of thousands of businesses. It’s a robust and sophisticated database solution, but, as with all business-critical services, use… Read More

Downtime is a risk faced by every business that serves customers on the web. The average website goes down for three hours a month because web hosting infrastructure isn’t wholly relia… Read More

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the latest news and updates in the larger Azure ecosystem, where we cover some of the big announcements over the past 2 weeks. Advancing Azure service qualit… Read More

Microsoft Azure is designed to minimize downtime, and Microsoft offers guarantees about the maximum amount of downtime service users should expect in the form of Service Level Agreements. It… Read More

This post is a high-level summary of our white paper on SQL database monitoring. For more depth and detail, you can download the full white paper. Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most wid… Read More

Welcome to our latest roundup of all the major news events in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem over the past two weeks. Microsoft confirms acquisition of CyberX to boost security in its Azure I… Read More

Azure Monitor is the platform’s central monitoring, notification, and alerting system. It brings together tools for turning telemetry—logs and metrics—from across Azure int… Read More

VIAcode recommends that Azure users implement Azure Security Center. Security Center provides a comprehensive security management service with advanced threat protection. It helps Azure user… Read More

Welcome to our Azure news weekly roundup with the latest events and stories in the Microsoft and Azure space! Follow us on Twitter for more great stories like these as they happen. We also r… Read More

VIAcode’s Azure Managed Services target the Azure infrastructure problems we see most often. Businesses migrate to Azure with clear goals, but they find it challenging to maximize the… Read More

Microsoft Azure users often find their cloud infrastructure grows faster than they expected. Because Azure cloud infrastructure is flexible and easy to provision, they discover new ways to u… Read More

Welcome to our weekly roundup where we cover the latest news and events in the Microsoft Azure Ecosystem. We also recently launched our proprietary Azure Snapshot assessment – an autom… Read More

Security is a primary concern when businesses first approach us about optimizing their Azure infrastructure. As their infrastructure grows, so does their awareness of potential security vuln… Read More

Do you know what you need to know about the state of your organization’s Azure infrastructure? For many SMEs, the answer is no. Is anyone responsible for monitoring Azure infrastructur… Read More

Break Our Azure Sphere Linux IoT OS and Earn Up to $100k Microsoft puts up a $100,000 bounty for critical bugs affecting its Linux-based OS for Azure Sphere. Microsoft Build 2020 Registratio… Read More

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KEXP is known internationally for their music and authenticity. To help bring their global audience the music they want, KEXP needed to find a solution that could bring all of their services… Read More

We have put together a Best Practices Guide for Cost Optimization in Azure. This ebook covers all aspects of Cost Optimization. It also provides actionable steps that you can take now. &nbsp&hell…Read More

Are you still relying on SCOM monitoring in Azure? Are you moving to Azure or already in Azure and weighing the options around SCOM monitoring versus using Azure alerts?  VIAcode c… Read More

As the saying goes, time is money. Watch SitePro help their clients save time by efficiently installing their IoT sensors at new job sites, and then providing up-to-the-minute data to their… Read More

What motivated your organization to migrate to Azure? Our clients answer this question in several ways: To reduce IT infrastructure spending. To access enterprise-grade infrastructure with g… Read More

We recently did a full-length webinar on the 4 biggest challenges of managing Azure cloud that we see with our clients, including: Azure cost management. Azure security and incident manageme… Read More

The new GDPR law was a significant shake-up to security regulations, and it can be a lot for a business to process. What exactly is this new law even asking? What does security principle or… Read More

Join Our Webinar Next Week on How to Overcome the 4 Biggest Challenges of Managing Azure Cloud We are excited to offer the expertise of Victor Mushkatin, CEO of VIAcode. He will dive into th… Read More

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… Read More

This is the third article in our series on Azure Cost Optimization. In Part 1, we looked at the basics of Azure cost optimization. In Part 2, we described Azure cost optimization best practi… Read More

This is the second part of our three-part series on Azure Cost Optimization. In Part 1, What Is Azure Cost Optimization? we looked at the basics of Azure cost optimization and some of the to… Read More

Ready to make the move to the cloud? When it comes to choosing a PaaS cloud provider, you shouldn’t have to choose between price and quality. Azure SQL Database Managed Instance offers… Read More