Management and governance

Microsoft Azure portal January 2019 update; Azure Backup for VMs behind an Azure Firewall; Dynamic mission planning for drones with Azure Maps; and much more.

Microsoft helps organizations all over the world comply with national, regional, and industry-specific regulatory requirements aimed at securing and protecting the data of individuals, establishments, and critical technology infrastructures.

This month we’re bringing you updates that improve the ease of navigation of the landing page, add to dashboard tile features, and increase functionality in Azure Container Instances.

We’re happy to introduce the new Grafana integration with Azure Monitor logs. This integration is achieved through the new Log Analytics plugin, now available as part of the Azure Monitor data source.

This blog post primarily discusses how Microsoft Azure Firewall and Azure Backup can be leveraged to provide comprehensive protection to your data. The former protects your network, while the latter backs up your data to the cloud.

We are continuously enhancing our offerings to help you in your digital transformation journey to the cloud. You can read more about these offerings in the blog, “Three reasons why Windows Server and SQL Server customers continue to choose Azure.

Microsoft simplifies path to certification for Azure developers; Developers: Get an intro to cloud storage options; Start the new year with the latest videos and podcasts on Azure topics; and so much more.

On December 18, 2018, the Azure PowerShell team released the first stable version of “Az,” a new cross-platform PowerShell module that will replace AzureRM. You can install this module by running “Install-Module Az” in an elevated PowerShell prompt.

Azure Availability Zones are unique fault-isolated physical locations, within an Azure region, with independent power, network, and cooling. Each Availability Zone is comprised of one or more datacenters and houses infrastructure to support highly available, mission critical applications with fault tolerance to datacenter failures.

This month we’re bringing updates to help improve the usability of creating and managing Virtual Machines in Azure, updates to Security Center and an improved experience to control access to resources.

Advanced tuning for Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) just got simpler with additional data warehouse recommendations and metrics. SQL DW is a flexible, secure, and fully managed analytics platform for the enterprise optimized for running complex queries quickly across petabytes of data.

Deploying complex SAP landscapes into a public cloud is not an easy task.