Microsoft Azure infrastructure services
What are Azure reservations? Azure Reservations help you save money by committing to one-year or three-year plans for multiple products. Committing allows you to get a discount on the resources you use. Reservations can significantly reduce your resource costs by up to 72% from pay-as-you-go prices. Reservations provide a billing discount and don’t affect the … Read more
Mixed reality A lot of progress has been made over the past decade on the following interconnected technologies: virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. Mixed reality comes mostly as a combination of virtual reality and augmented reality. The applications of mixed reality cover a broad spectrum of human activities, including, but not limited to, … Read more
Open licensing The Open licensing scheme provides an one-off purchase of Windows Server licenses and the customer must buy the Software Assurance (SA) maintenance contract separately on additional cost. The SA is optional but if the customer changes their mind in the future and wish to buy SA at a later point in time, they … Read more
Microsoft Azure Security Tools Besides the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), Microsoft offers a handful of security related tools and APIs which are available via Web-based consoles, Microsoft Graph API and Powershell. By navigating to https://security.microsoft.com/info, you should be able to utilize all available security tools and consoles as described below. Microsoft 365 security center. … Read more
New Windows Server 2022 announcement On March 2nd 2021 Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2022 is in preview, the next release in our Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC), which will be generally available later this calendar year. It builds on Windows Server 2019, our fastest adopted Windows Server ever. This release includes advanced multi-layer security, hybrid … Read more
Part 2: Check a more recent blog post (Azure App Service Design Considerations Part 2) for additional design considerations which supplement this post. Also refer to the following freely downloadable .pdf document which includes a series of tasks and tools to plan for when designing an application migration to the Azure App Service PaaS offering: … Read more
Azure provides a suite of fully managed load-balancing solutions for your scenarios. Azure Front Door Azure Front Door (AFD) works at Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS layer) using anycast protocol with split TCP and Microsoft’s global network to improve global connectivity. Based on your routing method you can ensure that Front Door will route your client requests … Read more
Introduction The current post attempts to present an overview of the Azure AI and Machine Learning services, as of late October 2020. Given the dynamic nature of public clouds, this list will most likely change soon in the near future but nevertheless acts as a general point of reference when discussing Azure AI and machine … Read more
Microsoft Visio is one of the leading software packages for data center diagram design. A Visio stencil is a collection of masters associated with a particular Microsoft Visio drawing type, or template. By default, stencils that open with a template are docked on the left side of the drawing window. You can open stencil (.vss) … Read more
