Should you leave the cloud? Is cloud migration reversing? Is cloud repatriation a growing trend? On-premises vs. Cloud – which is best? How do you futureproof your IT and protect your business through recession or uncertainty, whether that’s in Cloud or On-prem? Today’s article is about keeping your options open within the context of recent economic and technological trends.
Microsoft Azure Cloud offers broadly 3 different options to deploy SQL on Azure: Choosing the right Azure deployment option for you depends on your requirements and the level of effort you want to put into managing your SQL server.
A new era is here, where cloud computing is taking a growing share of the digital workspace market. Microsoft are well placed to capture an increasing part of this market to deliver digital workspaces to end users to run their business applications. Using Azure as the umbrella we see new Microsoft services arise each year. Last year the Windows 365 service was born with a Cloud PC service offering both Business and Enterprise subscriptions.
In today’s article, I will be highlighting eG Enterprise’s monitoring capabilities for Amazon’s AWS NICE DCV VDI protocol that was used first in Amazon’s AppStream 2.0 and now subsequently also in WSP 2.0 for the Amazon WorkSpaces service for digital workspaces.
For several decades, IT monitoring has been deployed in different forms. The focus of IT monitoring has been to gather metrics about the operations of an IT infrastructure’s hardware and software assets to ensure that all the key functions are being performed as expected to support applications and IT services. In the recent past, the term Observability has been used as a synonym for “modern monitoring”.
If you have arrived at this page but need a quick refresher on what Azure Active Directory is and why it is different to Active Directory that you might have installed on-premises, you might like to first read this quick run-down – What is Azure Active Directory.
Containers have long been used in the transportation industry. Cranes pick up containers and shift them onto trucks and ships for transportation. Container technology is handled in a similar vein in the software world. A container is a new and efficient way of deploying applications. A container is a lightweight unit of software that includes application code and all its dependencies such as binary code, libraries, and configuration files for easy deployment across different computing environments.
For over 40 years the vast majority of UK organisations have chosen to get their IT advice and solutions from specialist IT selling organisations, collectively called resellers. The principal functions resellers provide is advice, products, and services. Today resellers are categorised into sub-groups which better define their type or focus, such as, Managed Service Providers (MSP), Value Added Reseller (VAR), Enterprise, Systems Integrator (SI) etc.
A legacy way to deploy applications and desktops on Azure was often to put some Server 2022 VMs (Virtual Machines) in Azure running the standard RDS (Remote Desktop Services) roles – session hosts, brokers, gateway etc. and then pay the compute costs for your session hosts, brokers, and gateways, set up a public IP address and open ports.
Multicloud and hybrid cloud applications are deployed on multiple cloud vendor platforms, including on-premises private cloud. While these platforms offer tremendous benefits by providing a reliable and scalable platform for fuelling digital transformation, they also add significant monitoring complexity. Site reliability engineers (SRE) need multicloud monitoring visibility to: Why is this important?
