Tag: Microsoft

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Even with excellent business cloud storage and online backup platforms like Backblaze and Egnyte, a dedicated, physical server can do a lot for your small business. In addition to giving you control over how your data is stored, the best small business server should provide redundancy, expandability and upsides in security. We’ve gathered five servers that do the trick for small business, and another two honorable mentions. It doesn’t matter if you need a basic file server or a machine-learning powerhouse; there’s an option for you here. Key Takeaways: Small business servers can be expensive, ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Axel Streichardt. Introduction Recently, SAP announced RISE with SAP, an offering that enables you to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA more easily through a single-tenant, SAP-managed ERP implementation. RISE with SAP further simplifies SAP S/4HANA adoption by bundling the technology needed to execute your cloud journey into a single offer with one contract. This offering delivers a standard production SLA of 99.7% (99.5% non-PROD) on the core RISE with SAP offering (and a 99.9% SLA with a price uplift), as well as a 20% reduction¹ in total cost of ownership (TCO) over five years compared to ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. And why is it better than a Data Lake or an Analytics Hub? In the opening installment of this blog series—Data Lakes, Data Warehouses and Data Hubs: Do we need another choice?  I explore why simply migrating these on-prem data integration, management, and analytics platforms to the Cloud does not fully address modern data analytics needs. In comparing these three platforms, it becomes clear that while all of them meet certain critical needs, none of them meet the needs of business end-users without significant support from IT. What we in fact need is a platform ... Read More

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . Azure offers diverse backup capabilities, spanning a wide range of on-premises and cloud-based workloads. These capabilities include a number of options to perform backups of SAP HANA running in Azure virtual machines (VMs). The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of these options. Traditionally, these options could be grouped into two main categories. The first one relied on Azure Backup while the other comprised third-party Marketplace offerings. Azure NetApp Files, which became generally available at the end of May 2019, could be potentially viewed as third category. While this ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; Backing up your devices is critical if you want to protect yourself from things like data loss, ransomware attacks or hardware failure. The best way to do this is through a dedicated backup service, but unfortunately, many of the best backup solutions do not support any Linux operating systems. That’s why we’ve created this list of the best Linux cloud backup software to help you keep your data safe. Key Takeaways: If you don’t mind mediocre speeds, then IDrive is easily the best option for cloud backup on Linux due to its affordable plans, rich ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Melanie Purkis; Having a hard time grasping exactly what cloud technology is and the benefits of using the cloud? Despite having been around for more than a decade, “the cloud” is still a nebulous and hard to understand term for even the savviest IT professionals. Everything from television advertisements to water-cooler conversations talk about the cloud in a way that assumes everyone knows what it is.  The truth is that the cloud is far too expansive, complicated, and nuanced to be boiled down to a one-sentence simplification. Making sense of the cloud and how to best ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tanuj Bansal. Azure Marketplace offers thousands of industry-leading apps and services from Microsoft and partners, certified and optimized to run on Azure. Azure Marketplace makes it easy to find, try, and buy the solutions you need confidently and quickly to drive business outcomes. Introducing private Azure Marketplace To simplify governance and deployment of apps for our customers, we are announcing the general availability of private Azure Marketplace. Private Azure Marketplace is built on top of Azure Marketplace to enable governance of which apps are available for deployment in the company. Apps can be added from Azure Marketplace ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are happy to announce that we have just released the February update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.72.6) Here are some of the things that we would like to highlight with this month’s  release: Azure Cosmos DB connector renamed from DocumentDB to Cosmos DB on Gateway Compatible with February PBI desktop .Net Framework Update Deprecation Kerberos single sign-on (SSO) to SAP BW using gx64krb5 SAML single sign-on (SSO) to SAP HANA using OpenSSL Azure Cosmos DB Connector renamed on Gateway You have been able to connect to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Michael Flanakin. Whether you’re a new student, thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management and Billing comes in. We’re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Azure Cost Management and Billing can help you better understand where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Devarayulu Tula. Enterprises are increasingly defined by the applications they use and build to run their core business processes, including the customer experiences they provide. Across all sectors, we see how companies like challenger banks, online healthcare providers, e-commerce providers, and other startups are winning customers by providing new applications. The continuous need to innovate and deliver faster has yielded a new paradigm of software development called cloud native. Cloud native describes the applications, architectures, platforms, infrastructure, and processes, that together make it economical and possible to respond quickly to a changing landscape and growing ... Read More