Azure Icon Update Coming (New Icon Images) in 2019
Microsoft updates or refreshed the icon images for their software and services every so often to keep them looking fresh and current with modern icon…
Microsoft Azure
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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Microsoft Fabric vs Azure Service Fabric: Understanding the Differences
Microsoft Fabric and Azure Service Fabric share the term "Fabric" but serve different purposes. Microsoft Fabric is a unified data platform for analytics and integration, while Azure Service Fabric focuses on managing scalable microservices applications. Despite the shared name, they cater to distinct audiences and functionalities within the Microsoft ecosystem.
Azure Files vs. A Server with an SMB Share: Key Takeaways from MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast Episode 367
The MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast episode 367, hosted by Ben Segink and Scott Hoag, dives deep into a crucial IT topic: choosing between Azure…
Introducing Role-based Microsoft & Azure Certification Shakeup
Last July, Microsoft Learning announced some upcoming changes to the Microsoft Azure Certifications to make them more role-based. Recently, surrounding the Microsoft Ignite 2018 conference,…
Free eBook: Containerized Docker Application Lifecycle with Microsoft Platform and Tools
The “Containerized Docker Application Lifecycle with Microsoft Platform and Tools” free eBook from Microsoft Press, written by Cesar de la Torre, may be the guide…
Using Azure Storage Queues from C# and .NET Framework
Azure Storage Queues provide an easy to implement messaging communication mechanism for reliably passing messages to/from different components of a single application or multiple applications.…
Easy to Use VPN with OpenVPN in Azure
Security and Privacy are key in todays digital first world. Setting up a VPN with OpenVPN in Microsoft Azure offers a fairly simple method to…
What is Azure Stack?
Microsoft Azure Stack is a fairly new feature set to complement the Azure Platform, however, Azure Stack isn’t quite the usual feature addition to the…
Introducing Microsoft Coco Framework for Blockchain
Blockchain is the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others. These cryptocurrencies use Blockchain to implement a secure, write-once-read-many transaction ledger. However, there are…
Microsoft for Startups: Free Azure and Other Benefits
Awhile back Microsoft had the BizSpark program that offered free Microsoft software for startups. A couple of my own startups were able to get free…
Terraform: Deploy Azure Storage Account and Blob Container
HashiCorp Terraform is a great tool for deploying and managing Microsoft Azure resource. This includes management of Azure Storage Accounts and Blob Containers. Azure Storage…
Az Kung Fu VM – Master Tools for Azure Administrators
Have you ever spent hours building a machine to use as an admin workstation for Azure? What about installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux? Well,…
How big is the Microsoft Azure Cloud?
The Microsoft Azure Cloud is huge. It’s the largest cloud provider in the world with 38 Regions currently (30 online) spread across the globe, and…
Internet of Things (IoT) Messaging Architecture
Internet of Things (IoT) architecture requires a different kind of message queue based communication than other types of software systems or big data solutions. Most…
Configure Custom 404 Not Found Page with Azure Static Web Apps
When managing a website, it’s crucial to ensure a seamless user experience, even when things go wrong. One common scenario is the 404 Not Found…
Top 10 Tricks to Save Money with Azure Virtual Machines
This post contains 10 tips and tricks you can use to save money on your Virtual Machines (VMs) running in the Microsoft Azure cloud. The…
CosmosDB: The New DocumentDB NoSQL Database in Microsoft Azure
DocumentDB has been around for awhile now in Microsoft Azure. It’s a Document based, NoSQL database in the cloud. There’s been tons of advancements to…
What is Azure IoT Hub?
Security and reliability are 2 huge problem areas to overcome with the Internet of Things (IoT). The Microsoft Azure IoT Hub is the cloud solution…
TLDR: Microsoft Build 2024 Keynote with Satya Nadella
During the Microsoft Build 2024 keynote, CEO Satya Nadella delivered a comprehensive overview of Microsoft’s vision and advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). Addressing a global…
Azure Event Grid vs Azure IoT Hub: Which is better for IoT?
Both Azure Event Grid and Azure IoT Hub are massively scalable messaging services in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. There’s a lot of talk about Azure…