Microsoft Azure

We’ve talked fairly often about planning your cloud migration. Yet despite all the planning businesses do, sometimes cloud migrations fail. These are some of the main reasons: Wrong migration [...]

A common solution to performance problems is to simply throw more hardware into the mix. Bigger, faster servers and more memory are an easy fix. The problem is that’s also an expensive fix. Since [...]

There are many features and services available in cloud. Even similar-sounding features can be quite different in terms of the level of support they require from their users. As a result, it’s [...]

Serverless computing offers a way for businesses to reduce their support costs by eliminating their physical IT infrastructure. In some ways this is similar to the idea behind Software As A [...]

There’s never enough money in the budget to do everything you want with technology; that’s why it’s so important to get as much value as you can for the money you do have. Cloud offers a [...]

Every industry has multiple reasons for using cloud, from reining in out-of-control technology spending to developing new kinds of functionality. Here are some of the use cases that make cloud [...]

No matter the level of support your cloud provider offers, you still need to monitor your cloud systems.  That’s the only way you can know that your instances and applications are up, whether [...]

Cloud isn’t a single technology; it’s a way of accessing multiple kinds of technical resources. To use any cloud, like Microsoft Azure, effectively you need to make a series of decisions about [...]

One of the big challenges of moving to cloud is that there’s so much new to learn. The new partnership between Microsoft Azure and VMware will make switching to cloud easier because you can [...]

One of the first hurdles to overcome when you decide to use cloud is that you have to get your data and applications there. It’s important to spend time to develop a strategy for your cloud [...]