According to Microsoft, Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation meet business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using various tools and frameworks.
From DevOps to business analytics to the Internet of Things, Azure is designed to have users up and running quickly with a scalable, cost-effective solution that works with your existing investments.
This cloud computing service is a big part of Microsoft’s business, and it competes with similar services from Amazon and Google.
Therefore, our Azure Category is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.
Containers are no longer the best kept secret in IT. Practically everywhere I go, I hear of organizations using containers for everything from small projects to mission critical 24×7 applications with 99.999% uptime SLA’s. These kinds of projects all have a myriad of different requirements and drivers that go into making the decision of where… READ MORE
Azure Cognitive Search is a powerful service that you can use to find useful information in your data, even unstructured data such as pdf files, Office docs and images. Moreover, you can seamlessly integrate AI capabilities, known as cognitive skills, to enrich your apps and extract even more information. In my video entry for the Azure Advent… READ MORE
Azure DevOps API has everything you need to build your software product from envisioning to put in into end-users’ hands. The Azure-hosted DevOps services can enable your end to end product delivery with excellent traceability across the teams. Azure DevOps provides you the ability to plan your project using agile tools, manage your source code… READ MORE
The best solution when faced with a known security vulnerability is to upgrade to the latest version of the product where the issue no longer exists. However, that is often a heck of a lot more complicated than it sounds when Mitigating security concerns. Although performing an upgrade is typically the most secure option, all… READ MORE
Popular phishing attacks are using illicit consent grant to gain access to company or user data. In this article we will cover the detection (with Azure Sentinel, Microsoft Cloud App Security or Azure AD portal) and mitigation of illicit consent grant attacks. Consent Framework and Default (Tenant) Settings In the first step it’s very helpful… READ MORE
Azure cloud solutions offer many advantages for IT workloads. There are five fundamental principles to help you optimize workload quality and results and have success in Azure. These principles are: Security, Cost, DevOps, Resiliency, and Scalability. Security: cloud workloads including applications and data must be protected from threats. Cost: correctly used, the cloud can be… READ MORE
The Cloud Adoption Framework is the One Microsoft approach to cloud adoption in Azure, consolidating and sharing best practices from Microsoft employees, partners, and customers. The framework gives customers a set of tools, guidance, and narratives that help shape technology, business, and people strategies for driving desired business outcomes during their adoption effort. This guidance aligns to… READ MORE
In the last couple of months, I have fallen in love with Blazor. I can almost shout out: “imma firin mah Blazor!” Blazor makes it possible to produce interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript: Blazor is a web framework based on Asp.Net core: Blazor apps are composed of reusable web UI components implemented using C#,… READ MORE
When you build a regular web app in ASP.NET Core, you can easily hook bunch of tools to it in order to be able to generate OpenAPI definitions. With Azure Functions, this is slightly more complex and challenging. At the moment there doesn’t appear to be any official release and recommended guidance form Microsoft on how-to generate… READ MORE
Note: This is an opinion piece, representing my personal views. Last March, Microsoft announced an exciting new addition to the Azure Stack brand – Azure Stack HCI! This announcement enhances the Azure Stack portfolio in a few important ways, evolving the WSSD program into the 2019 ecosystem, and reaffirming the importance of understanding the best place to… READ MORE
