A very good article illustrating how Azure Site Recovery can recover your applications, as well as virtual machines, in the event of a disaster. DR Plans…sorted! https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/app-aware-asr/
Azure Advisor. A great facility to provide information on how you can improve performance, security and configurations for ALL Azure resources across both ASM and ARM in your subscription. It […]
Azure Resource Policies for Resource Groups and Subscriptions can now be managed from the portal. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/portal-preview-of-azure-resource-policy-2/
SONiC is the switch software used in Azure. Very clever multiple containerised components meaning updates can be applied at container level rather than across a whole switch. Open source too […]
A great insight to why Azure’s networking provides low latency, great performance with redundancy and resilience using their pioneering Software-Defined Networking innovation on a global scale. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/networking-innovations-that-drive-the-cloud-disruption/
Azure Blueprint for the UK Government’s Cloud Security Principles details how Azure implements the 14 individual Cloud Security Principles published by the National Cyber Security Centre. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-blueprint-supports-the-uk-government-s-cloud-security-principles/
Exchange 2007’s support ends on April 11 2017. After this date you will no longer be eligible for ongoing security, performance, and compatibility patches. Further details… exchange_2007_to_office365
Search-as-a-Service now available in UK South with Azure Search. Build search experiences into apps. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-search-now-available-in-uk/
Azure DocumentDB now supports aggregates (COUNT MIN MAX SUM AVG). This is a huge advancement! https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/resources/videos/documentdb-support-for-aggregates/
Add the newly released Azure Managed Disks into your DR Plan with Azure Backup. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-managed-disk-backup/
This webcast shows you how to be more aware of data breaches and what measures can be taken to avoid them with Office365 and Security & Compliance techniques. https://blogs.office.com/2017/02/16/advice-to-help-prevent-data-breaches-at-your-company/
A great security checker feature to see how secure your Office365 is and how to improve it if needed. https://blogs.office.com/2017/02/10/new-office-365-capabilities-helps-you-proactively-manage-security-and-compliance-risk/
Nice quick-start guide on implementing a Cisco ASAv in Azure. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/asa96/asav/quick-start/asav-quick/asav-azure.pdf #azure #cisco #asa
A huge step for data disks with scale set VMs using Azure Managed Disks. Scale up to 1000 VMs with encrypted data disks. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-managed-disks-and-larger-scale-sets/
Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery available in the UK. Excellent solutions for BCP and DR. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-backup-and-azure-site-recovery-now-available-in-uk/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/auto-backup-for-sql-server-2016-azure-virtual-machine/ A great feature and time saver to backup and manage SQL2016 user and system databases from the Azure Portal. You can restore to any point in time and all […]
Azure File Storage now offering encryption for data at rest with Storage Service Encryption. Currently in preview. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/preview-storage-service-encryption-for-file-storage/
If you use Azure SQL Databases here’s a new quick way to run queries without even leaving the portal. #timesaver #azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/t-sql-query-editor-in-browser-azure-portal/
Azure Government is the first cloud solution to achieve Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization. #azure #government #dod https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/microsoft-azure-government-is-first-commercial-cloud-to-achieve-dod-impact-level-5-provisional-authorization-general-availability-of-dod-regions/
Double the read and write performances for Azure SQL Databases. No cost change either, so dropping a tier and reducing costs may indeed provide the same performance. Nice! https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-sql-database-is-increasing-the-read-and-write-performance/ #azure