Tag: Microsoft

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; Complex, inflexible architectures, redundancy and out-of-date technology, are common problems for companies facing data to cloud migration.  We look to the “clouds,” hoping that we will find there a magic solution to improve operational speed and performance, better workload and scalability, less prone and less complicated architectures. We hope to make our database administrator's life more comfortable. But is it really always a case?  As more enterprises are moving to the cloud, the hybrid model is actually becoming more popular. The hybrid model is seen as a safe model for many businesses.  In fact, it's ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides a fully managed native Microsoft Windows file system so you can easily move your Windows-based applications that require shared file storage to AWS. Built on Windows Server, Amazon FSx natively supports the SMB protocol, Windows NTFS, and Active Directory (AD). To meet a broad spectrum of needs, Amazon FSx delivers high levels of throughput and IOPs, and provides consistent sub-millisecond latencies.  ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Ben Stockton; Windows has never had a great reputation for cybersecurity. This comes with being the most popular PC operating system. That’s also why antivirus software like Bitdefender exist in the first place. Thankfully, Microsoft hasn’t ignored the threat themselves, adding Windows Defender to every Windows installation. Whether you can trust Windows Defender to keep your PC secure or not is another matter. This is why we’re going to compare it with Bitdefender, our choice as the best antivirus software on the market. Windows Defender made it onto our best free antivirus software shortlist, and it’s seen ... Read More

Feed: CronJ. Author: Vignesh M; Everyone’s familiar with JavaScript the most popular programming language used as a client-side development tool in 95 percent of websites. But what about server-side programming? Well, with the introduction of Node.JS, JavaScript has become an all-purpose full stack development language. While Angular, React and Vue are Front-end Frameworks / Libraries, Node is the one and only Javascript based Back-end framework. So, let’s discuss what Node.JS is and then explore its advantages and disadvantages. CronJ NodeJSNode.JS is an open-source runtime environment for JavaScript. It’s based on Chrome v8, an engine for chromium browsers. Node.JS allows your ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: David Mundy; by David Mundy | Aug 15, 2019 | Product Information Feature Release 19.3: Secure S3 Buckets, Microsoft Teams, & Compliance Heat Map  We are excited to announce our newest release of 2019 which continues our mission to help you effectively leverage CSP security and management tools like AWS’ “GET BucketPolicyStatus”... by David Mundy | Aug 6, 2019 | Product Information, Security DivvyCloud is IT World Awards 2019 Silver Winner in Cloud Security We are honored to announce that DivvyCloud is the silver winner of Network Product Guide’s 2019 IT World Award for Cloud Security. The ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Tamar Gal. Let’s explore the complexity and vulnerability of IT infrastructure and how to build a modern IT infrastructure monitoring solution, using a combination of time series databases with machine learning. iCloud recently joined Google, Facebook, Amazon on the list of major companies that have experienced massive cloud outages. Check out ZDNet’s series of articles detailing the outages. The outage caused disruptions to the likes of YouTube, Snapchat, and Gmail, among others. iCloud’s failure also affected all their third-party apps and ApplePay, which resounded globally. We have quickly embraced the cloud as more ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: David Mundy; by David Mundy | Aug 14, 2019 | Blog Post, Public Sector, Security Government Institutions Risk Data Breaches by Avoiding Cloud Security Automation DivvyCloud co-founder and CTO, Chris DeRamus, recently published an article with HomelandSecurityToday.us on why cloud automation is the antidote for government agencies plagued by... by David Mundy | Aug 6, 2019 | Product Information, Security DivvyCloud is IT World Awards 2019 Silver Winner in Cloud Security We are honored to announce that DivvyCloud is the silver winner of Network Product Guide’s 2019 IT World Award for Cloud Security. The IT World Awards ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Mark Russinovich. Today, Tad Brockway, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure, announced the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage, an Azure Managed Disks offering that provides massive throughput with sub-millisecond latency for your most I/O demanding workloads. With the introduction of Ultra Disk Storage, Azure includes four types of persistent disk—Ultra Disk Storage, Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD. This portfolio gives you price and performance options tailored to meet the requirements of every workload. Ultra Disk Storage delivers consistent performance and low latency for I/O intensive workloads like SAP Hana, OLTP databases, NoSQL, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tad Brockway. Today, we are announcing the general availability (GA) of Microsoft Azure Ultra Disk Storage—a new Managed Disks offering that delivers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency for the most demanding Azure Virtual Machines and container workloads. With Ultra Disk Storage, customers are now able to lift-and-shift mission critical enterprise applications to the cloud including applications like SAP HANA, top tier SQL databases such as SQL Server, Oracle DB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, as well as NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Cassandra. With the introduction of Ultra Disk Storage, Azure now offers ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ram Balakrishnan. As more and more organizations adopt Azure for their business-critical workloads, the connectivity between organizations’ on-premises networks and Microsoft becomes crucial. Azure ExpressRoute provides the private connectivity between on-premises networks and Microsoft. By default, an ExpressRoute circuit provides redundant network connections to Microsoft backbone network and is designed for carrier grade high availability. However, the high availability of a network connectivity is as good as the robustness of the weakest link in its end-to-end path. Therefore, it is imperative that the customer and the service provider segments of ExpressRoute connectivity are also architected ... Read More