Best practices

Optimizing your Azure workloads can feel like a time-consuming task.

Moving business-critical workloads demand a disaster recovery strategy not only for the frontend network connectivity to the workloads, but also for backend network connectivity directly to organizations.

Back in April we announced the Azure VMware Solution to deliver a comprehensive VMware environment allowing you to run native VMware-based workloads on Azure. It’s a fully managed PaaS that includes vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX-T, and corresponding tools.

In recent weeks, we’ve been talking about the many reasons why Windows Server and SQL Server customers choose Azure. Security is a major concern when moving to the cloud, and Azure gives you the tools and resources you need to address those concerns.

Azure offers VNet Peering and VNet Gateways to connect VNets. Based on your unique scenario, you might want to pick one over the other. Microsoft recommends VNet peering within region/cross region scenarios. Check out the blog to learn more.

Azure Virtual Network enables a flexible foundation for building advanced networking architectures. Managing heterogeneous environments with various types of filtering components, such as Azure Firewall or your favorite network virtual appliance, requires a little bit of planning.

The Azure Advanced Threat Protection team’s decision to use Azure Cosmos DB for its cloud-based security service has enabled the team to meet all key requirements, including zero database maintenance, uncompromised real-time performance, elastic scalability, high availability, and strong security and compliance.

Microsoft Azure Advanced Threat Protection is a cloud-based security service that uses customers’ on-premises Azure Active Directory signals to identify, detect, and investigate advanced threats, compromised identities, and malicious insider actions.

It’s a question we often hear. After all, they’re similar and related services. Azure Monitor helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identifies issues affecting them and the resources they depend on.

Microsoft Azure is rapidly becoming the public cloud of choice for large financial services enterprises.

Azure App Service provides an easy way to bring source code or containers and deploy full web apps in minutes, with the ease of configuration settings at the hands of the app owner.

Migrating hundreds of SQL Server instances and thousands of databases to Azure SQL Database, our Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, is a considerable task, and to streamline the process as much as possible, you need to feel confident about your relative readiness for migration.