Have you ever wondered what Azure region would be the fastest to host your applications when those applications are accessed from your office? Obviously the closest data center would probably be the best choice (each region has multiple data centers), but how … Continue reading →
In Azure, there previously has been only one kind of storage account, which is now called a “General Purpose” storage account. Just introduced is a new kind of storage account, called “Cool Blob Storage”. When creating a storage account, the … Continue reading →
There are so many benefits to the cloud, but one of the major features is the ease of use in scaling a virtual machine (VM). A common scenario is when you are building an application that needs SQL Server. Simply … Continue reading →
I’m sure you are aware of Microsoft Azure, but are you aware there is special version of Azure for U.S. governments? Microsoft Azure Government is a cloud computing service for federal, state, local and tribal U.S. governments. It was generally available … Continue reading →
Microsoft made available the first technical preview of its new Microsoft Azure Stack offering today. It was announced last week. Azure Stack brings the cloud model of computing to every datacenter – your own private cloud. Azure Stack is a new hybrid … Continue reading →
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure, created by Microsoft, for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed and Microsoft partner-hosted datacenters. Included in this platform are multiple ways of storing data. Below … Continue reading →
So you have data in Azure Blob Storage and are concerned about reliability. Have no fear! There are four replication options for redundancy: 1. Locally Redundant Storage (LRS): All data in the storage account is made highly durable and available within … Continue reading →
In a previous blog I talked about copying on-prem data to Azure Blob Storage (Getting data into Azure Blob Storage). Let’s say you have copied the data and it is sitting in Azure Blob Storage (or an Azure Data Lake) … Continue reading →
I first blogged about Microsoft’s new product, the Azure Data Lake, a few months back (here). There are already enhancements, as announced at Stata + Hadoop World. Here they are in brief: The Azure Data Lake has been renamed to the … Continue reading →
If you have on-prem data and want to copy it to Azure Blob Storage in the cloud, what are all the possible ways to do it? There are many, and here is a quick review of them: AzCopy: A popular command-line … Continue reading →
Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) is a fully managed cloud service for real-time processing of streaming data. ASA makes it easy to set up real-time analytic computations on data flowing in from devices, sensors, web sites, applications and infrastructure systems. It … Continue reading →
Microsoft Azure provides you two options when hosting your SQL Server-based data warehouse: Microsoft Azure SQL Database and SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machine. Which one is appropriate based on the size of the data warehouse? What are some hardware features to … Continue reading →