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With the release of Splunk 9.0 came support for SmartStore in Azure. Previously to achieve this, you’d have to use some form of S3-compliant broker API, but now we can use native Azure APIs. The addition of this capability means that Splunk now offers complete SmartStore support for all three of the big public cloud vendors. This blog will describe a little bit about how it works, and help you set it up yourself.

This blog was originally posted by Microsoft MVP Theresa Miller to her blog, 24×7 IT Connection. Organizations are migrating their desktops to the cloud as a long-term future state and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a common implementation choice. Technology migrations can be complex to plan and execute on. Today let’s look more closely at some common AVD use case scenarios and then dive into the top 4 best practices for a successful migration to AVD.

The most important thing with building out any application is to think BIG. Build for ten users now and 10,000 users tomorrow. Having infrastructure that scales as your needs do is critical for user adoption—one of the many reasons we love a serverless approach and particularly AWS Lambda. The other part of any growth journey is managing access to organizational cloud infrastructure, especially with rapidly growing organizational development and DevOps teams.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) needs no introduction. It's one of the most popular services in the world. Or actually, the most popular cloud infrastructure provider (34%) according to this study. Like in any other service, there are outages. For people running their infrastructures, there's a good chance that outages have impacted your business in the past. And the reality for AWS (or any other service) is that there's a good chance it will happen again.