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Managing and Controlling Azure Expenses

How Do I Keep My Azure Cloud Costs Under Control?

Posted on May 29th, 2017 in IT Expenses, Microsoft Azure

Business organizations large and small have been gradually making the move towards a hybrid infrastructure where some information technology (IT) infrastructure resides in-house and some resides in a public cloud such as Microsoft Azure. With this trend comes the question, how do I keep my public cloud costs under control? Microsoft Azure provides a number of built-in features that provide an…(read more).

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Azure StorSimple 8k Maintenance Mode updates

Posted on April 19th, 2017 in Microsoft Azure

StorSimple is Microsoft’s on premises iSCSI SAN that extends seamlessly to the cloud providing 500 TB of disk space to on-premises file servers, users, and applications with a 4 RU footprint. From time to time, Microsoft makes software and firmware updates available to the device. System administrators choose when to deploy these updates at a convenient time. The device software…(read more).

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Azure StorSimple Provides a Secure Storage Option for Healthcare Sector

Posted on January 30th, 2017 in Microsoft Azure

Azure, Storage, and StorSimple Azure is Microsoft’s public cloud offering. Microsoft provides data storage as one of the services in Azure. Azure storage provides an attractive option for organizations who wish to leverage cloud scalability, flexibility, security, and cost savings. A single Azure subscription provides up to 100 standard storage accounts, each has a capacity of 500 TB. Such vast…(read more).

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Deploying Azure ARM VMs in Availability Set

Posted on January 29th, 2017 in Microsoft Azure

Earlier this month I posted an article about using PowerShell to automate the deployment of Azure ARM VMs.  In this article I expand on that by exploring and automating the deployment of Azure RM Virtual Machine Availability Sets. Availability Set In Azure and similar public clouds, a Virtual Machine is subject to planned and unplanned outages that may make the…(read more).

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Provisioning and Tearing Down Azure Virtual Machines

Posted on January 3rd, 2017 in Microsoft Azure, Powershell

This article describes automating the process of provisioning an Azure VM (Virtual Machine) and tearing it down. Before we start, let’s clarify few terms: Azure When we talk about Azure it is understood that we’re talking about Microsoft’s public cloud offering. This is sometimes referred to as Azure commercial. In Powershell, this is referred to AzureCloud. Microsoft has separate clouds from…(read more).

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Azure for Backup and Disaster Recovery

Posted on December 30th, 2016 in Backup and Disaster Recovery, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Azure, New Jersey

Microsoft has provided several ways to back up data to Azure, including Data Protection Manager (DPM) part of System Center, Windows Backup, direct tools like PowerShell, Azure Backup, and to a certain extent StorSimple. They have evolved quickly over the past few years in terms of features and capabilities/limitations. Azure provides an attractive option for data backup for several reasons,…(read more).

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Why Azure is Right for Your Small or Mid-Size Business

Posted on October 3rd, 2016 in Cloud Computing, Microsoft Azure

  GE Healthcare. 3M. NBC Sports. Chances are, whenever you have seen commercials for Microsoft Azure, you’ve also seen the big brands that they tout as customers. Those marquee names can be misleading, because they suggest that Microsoft’s Azure cloud service isn’t a fit for your small or mid-size business. The fact is, Azure can be a great way for…(read more).

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One of The Easiest Ways Law Firms Can Save Money with Microsoft Azure

Posted on September 25th, 2016 in Legal Vertical, Microsoft Azure

As a business owner, former IT consultant and admitted techno-geek, I have to admit that I have not been as excited about a platform or technology like Microsoft Azure in a long time.  The sheer scale, power and flexibility of Azure, coupled with the fact that that it was designed to work well with what you already have in your…(read more).

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