Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and service provided by Microsoft. It offers a wide range of cloud services, including computing, analytics, storage, and networking. Azure enables businesses and developers to build, deploy, and manage applications through Microsoft’s global network of data centers. With support for various programming languages, tools, and frameworks, Azure provides solutions for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Known for its strong integration with Microsoft products and services, Azure is designed to provide secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions for enterprises of all sizes.
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There have been a few incarnations of the Microsoft Azure Management Portal over the years. The current state is a fairly easy to use Web…
In the current time of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic many more people are working and meeting online. Many of those people have moved to using…
Microsoft continually updates the content of the different Microsoft Azure certification exams, but it’s been almost 2 years since they really updated the Microsoft Certification…
The Microsoft Azure Cost Estimator Tool allows for the necessary hosting resources of an enterprise environment to be mocked up as the appropriate Azure instances…
There have been a number of Azure IoT Starter Kits available for some time now. I’ve written about the Starter Kits in the past. Some of…
The new Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Kit board is pretty amazing! It is Arduino compatible and includes many sensors, buttons, and an OLED display all…
Building out an IoT (Internet of Things) solution can be a difficult problem to solve. It sounds easy at first, you just connect a bunch…
It’s really easy to provision an instance of Azure IoT Hub using the Azure Portal. However, there are times when you need to automate the…
Developers often encounter hurdles when managing SQL Azure databases for development and testing. While SQL Azure offers a robust cloud-based solution, it can be costly…
When the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer was first released, it did seem a little odd that Microsoft would neglect supporting Linux. However, they did support…
Setting up a Minecraft server generally takes a bit of work from installing the Operating System, installing Java, to setting up the Minecraft Server to…
For years it’s been difficult to migrate a database that was built in SQL Server to Microsoft Azure SQL Database. Originally, the T-SQL support in…
The Microsoft Certified: Azure IoT Developer Specialty certification (and exam AZ-220) is now LIVE and out of Beta. This is the first cloud-based Internet of…
One of the latest moves by cloud service providers (like Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS) is the shift to offering “serverless” services. These are Platform…
A fact that went all but confirmed by both Microsoft and Apple is that Apple has been using Microsoft Azure cloud services to host their…
Scott Guthrie’s talk, “Next Generation AI for Developers with the Microsoft Cloud,” highlighted significant advancements and tools for developers leveraging AI and the Microsoft Cloud.…
The Microsoft Azure Stack documentation team has released a new Azure Stack Capacity Planner. This planner is intended to help assist in the pre-purchase planning…
Have you ever created an Azure web application, created a DNS record from your domain, and then deleted the web app without deleting the DNS…
Microsoft Azure Service Bus provides an PaaS (Platform as a Service) communications platform built to allow more robust, multi-tenant software systems to be built in…
