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Monthly Archives: April 2017
Methods for Creating Azure Virtual Machines
Azure offers different ways to create a virtual machine because virtual machines are suited for different users and purposes. This means that you need to make some choices about the virtual machine and how you will create it. Azure Documentation … Continue reading
Azure Cost Controls
Azure EA Portal Many organizations pass on IT-related costs to the business units with the organization. If tracking these costs per business unit is a requirement for workloads hosted in Azure, there are approaches that can be taken to address … Continue reading
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Azure Workload Protection
Often those that are new to deploying workloads in a public cloud do not consider how they will protect the workload once it is hosted there. This is, of course, a critical requirement for business continuity. Document how the workload … Continue reading
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Azure Trust Center Pillars
Microsoft understands that enterprise customers need to entrust their most valuable assets with a cloud provider to realize the full benefits of the cloud. These assets, such as your company data, must be secure and kept safe. Azure Trust Center … Continue reading
Why the Azure Trust Center?
With the emergence of cloud computing, today’s IT organizations are looking at cloud solutions for many of their projects. As part of that, IT organizations are ramping up their internal cloud knowledge and cloud skills. One of the challenges associated … Continue reading
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Managing Access to SaaS apps overview
Ongoing access management, usage evaluation, and reporting continue to be a challenge after an app is integrated into your organization’s identity system. In many cases, IT Administrators or helpdesk have to take an ongoing active role in managing access to … Continue reading
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Planning Considerations on Azure Virtual Machine
When planning for virtual machine deployment in Microsoft Azure, there is a range of factors to take into account, such as: Storage: How much, where, and in what configuration Disk: Sizing, persistence and caching. Compute: Capacity required. Availability: Uptime requirements, … Continue reading
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Restore Azure Virtual Machines
Once your virtual machine snapshots are safely in the recovery services vault it is easy to recover them. Once you trigger the restore operation, the Backup service creates a job for tracking the restore operation. The Backup service also creates and temporarily … Continue reading
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Backup Azure Virtual Machines
Backing up Azure virtual machines is easy and follows a simple process. Create a recovery services vault. To back up your files and folders, you need to create a Recovery Services vault in the region where you want to store … Continue reading
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Multiple NICs in Azure Virtual Machines
You can create virtual machines (VMs) in Azure and attach multiple network interfaces (NICs) to each of your VMs. Multi NIC is a requirement for many network virtual appliances, such as application delivery and WAN optimization solutions. Multi NIC also … Continue reading
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