Last updated: July 24, 2016.
IMPORTANT: The information I reported in this post is time sensitive since may change in the future. I will try to maintain the content updated, but you should d… Read More
The files used in this article can be found in GitHub here: https://github.com/ssemyan/BasicAzureLinuxVmArmTemplate
There are many ways to script the creation of virtual machines, services… Read More
Below is a list of updates, recommendations and new technologies for customers moving SAP applications onto Azure.
At the end of the blog is a checklist we recommend all customers follow wit… Read More
This is part two of one of how to setup the mother of all database clustering solutions for SharePoint. In part one we setup the failover cluster, installed SQL Server and configured the fai… Read More
When I demonstrated AlwaysOn for SharePoint Disaster Recovery setups a while ago, the SQL cluster model I setup wasn’t strictly speaking highly-available. This is because there’s… Read More
Enterprise Security layers in Hadoop consists of four pillars on Azure –
Perimeter Security
Authentication
Authorization
Auditing
Data with Encryption
Recently, there has been announc… Read More
VM disk encryption is achieved using Bitlocker encryption of Windows VMs and DMcrypt in Linux VMs. It leverages Azure KeyVault services to store your encryption keys which is again an a… Read More
2 weeks ago, I touched on the topic of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), their benefits and an example on how to consistently create an Azure resource group for deploying a virtual network with… Read More
Jeśli czytaliście mój poprzedni artykuł o budowaniu aplikacji w chmurze bez użycia serwera to zapewne wiecie, że…App Service Enviroment to dedykowane … Read More
This blog is a technical overview of a project recently completed by a large Australian Energy Company (the Company) over the past 12 months to transform the Company’s SAP Solution fro… Read More
El escalado automático de soluciones IaaS suele ser complicado, pero gracias a los Virtual Machine Scale Sets vamos a ver cómo podemos crear un conjunto de máquinas virt… Read More
Last updated: April 6th, 2017.
IMPORTANT: The information I reported in this post is time sensitive since may change in the future. I will try to maintain the content updated, but you should… Read More
Hi all, we are delighted to share the Production Ready Release of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 13.1 for macOS – El Capitan and Sierra. The new driver enables access to SQL Serve… Read More
In this article, I would like to demonstrate how to deploy an ASP.NET Core application with SQL Server dependency to nano server by docker. To support .NET Core in docker, Microsoft has publ… Read More
Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) is one of the most commonly implemented network services in today’s network environments. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a net… Read More
Background: Education customers, particularly Higher Education customers, tend to invest in Internet connectivity differently than the average company focused on making or selling widg… Read More
With Azure Site Recovery (ASR) it is now possible to orchestrate fail over of workloads like Web Applications running Azure Virtual Machines from a Primary Site to a DR Site. Using Recovery… Read More
One of my customers is building a set of ARM templates for their internal users. They wanted to remove the burden for users to specify the local administrator’s credentials, but… Read More
Azure resources can be provisioned and modified a multitude of ways, through the portal, via PowerShell or through templates. In this post we're going to take a look at the latter method, an… Read More
BigDL is a distributed deep learning library for Apache Spark*. Using BigDL, you can write deep learning applications as Scala or Python programs and take advantage of the power of scalable… Read More
In this post, Senior ADM Fidelis Ekezue shares insights into similarities and differences between Azure VNets and AWS VPC.
It’s important to note that in the cloud, features and capabi… Read More
WORK IN PROGRESS
This blog is part 3 of a series that covers relevant Azure fundamentals - concepts/terminology that you need to know, in the context of Hadoop. Much off the content… Read More
Motivation for this blog...
On my last day at my former workplace, where I mostly worked on customer Hadoop projects on AWS, a colleague got a project that involved provisioning an IaaS Hado… Read More
When you are running a Skype for Business Online environment, CQD allows you to gain insights into the quality of calls via metrics and absolute network measurements from calls meta dat… Read More
It is a common scenario that we want to use VNet Integration to enable our web app access a database or other services running on a virtual machine in an Azure virtual network. With VNet Int… Read More
TL;DR
The short version of this blog post is that I have published a new SQL Server Always On Template. Check it out.
SQL Always On Template
Microsoft SQL Server has an important high availa… Read More
Multisite availability groups allow customers to deploy copies of business data across multiple sites, for disaster recovery and/or for reporting purposes, offering near real-time changes av… Read More
Network Virtualization
Network Virtualization provides ability to create multiple virtual networks on a shared physical network. Each tenant gets a complete isolated virtual network, which i… Read More
As part of the Azure Database Migration Service (Azure DMS) Public Preview, we have released a PowerShell library to automate bulk database migrations from SQL Server to SQL Azure Database… Read More
This blog details a recent customer deployment by Cognizant SAP Cloud team on HANA Large Instances. From an architecture perspective of HANA Large Instances, the usage of HANA System R… Read More
Olá Pessoal tudo bem? Espero que sim!
Recentemente a Microsoft anunciou o Public Preview do Azure Database Migration Service (Azure DMS), uma nova forma de levar seus dados em… Read More
Microsoft has provided a great framework for creating chat bots. If you are coming from a Windows background, you would typically create one in .NET Framework and deploy it to an Azure App S… Read More
Azure SQL Managed Instance is fully managed SQL Server instance hosted in Azure cloud and placed in your Azure Virtual Network. In this post, I will explain how you can prepare network envir… Read More
The Azure Database Migration Service is a fully managed service designed to enable seamless migrations from multiple database sources to Azure Data platforms with minimal downtime. For Azure… Read More
A bit of history
When you talk about Cloud Computing, you cannot avoid talking about networking, it is the glue that maintain everything together, and permit users to access their resources… Read More
SAP systems moved onto Azure cloud now commonly include large multinational "single global instance" systems and are many times larger than the first customer systems deployed when the Azure… Read More
Three years ago, I started working with a big Microsoft partner on moving infrastructure and services into Azure. At that time, it was not possible to implement all the required functionalit… Read More
This sample talks about few basic aspects of Azure PowerShell,
1. Reading from CSV
2. Parameterizing PowerShell
3. Calling another PowerShell from PowerShell with Parameters
Now let’s… Read More
Azure policy Service can be used to implement rules that helps organizations stay compliant when deploying and configuring resources in Azure. This sample implements a rule that ensures that… Read More
Site-to-Site VPN between pfSense and Azure with BGP to allow dynamic discovery of your networks
This post explains how to set up a VPN connection from an open-source pfSense Firewall to Azur… Read More
In this blog I set out an architecture for a data analytics pipeline that starts with an SQL Server database and ends with a Power BI dashboard. The pipeline can be fully automated so that u… Read More
Azure Event Hubs, a highly reliable and easily scalable data streaming PaaS offering has been prolific this year with new features such as Availability Zones and a big investment into Open S… Read More
The files used in this article can be found here: https://github.com/ssemyan/BasicAzureLinuxVmTerraformTemplate
In a previous post - Creating Azure Resources with ARM Templates Step by Step… Read More
Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) is a command line library that enables you to quickly and easily work with your Azure SQL Managed Instances. In this post, you will see some basic CLI comm… Read More
App Dev Manager Chris Tjoumas explains classless internet domain routing (CIDR) blocks.
When designing a system architecture in Azure, you will often need to connect Azure VMs (Virtual Netwo… Read More
This tutorial assumes the Managed Instance is already created and that connections from the jumpbox also work.
If you have a Managed Instance and would like to connect directly from a place… Read More
My post yesterday got a little long so, I’ve done a part2 to show how else you might group your solutions.
Part1: http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ukhybridcloud/2018/11/20/azure-log-an… Read More
Over the years, we have been asked about what some of the Failover Cluster resources/resource types are and what they do. There are several resources that have been asked about on multiple o… Read More
In the previous article, we looked at setting up WordPress on AWS EC2 using a MySQL RDS instance for database storage. This was in fact how the present blog was set up. In what follows, we u… Read More