What is Azure Data Box and Data Box Disk?
Are you looking to move large amounts of data into Azure? How does doing it for free sound and with an easier process? Today I’m here to tell you how to do just that with the Azure Data Box. Picture…
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog in Azure
If you’re like many Azure customers, you’ve been on the look out for a data catalog and data lineage tool and want one with all the key capabilities you’re looking for. Today, I’d like to tell you more about the…
Introducing Microsoft Azure Sphere
As we continually see more and more consumer-grade internet devices, like appliances, baby monitors, thermostats, etc., we need a more robust way to manage these devices in a secure way. There are approximately 9 billion of these devices built every…
New Options for SQL 2008 End of Support
If you’re using SQL 2008 or 2008R2, you need to be aware that the extended support for those ends on July 9, 2019. This means the end of regular security updates which leads to more vulnerabilities, and the software won’t…
Overview of Azure Operations Management Suite (OMS)
In this post I’d like to give an overview of what Azure Operations Management Suite is and what it can be used for. First, Operations Management Suite, or OMS, is a collection of management services designed for Azure cloud. As…
Hybrid Cloud Strategies and Management
Are you running a hybrid environment between on-premises and Azure? Do you want to be? In a recent webinar, Sr. Principal Architect, Chris Seferlis, answered the question: How can my organization begin using hybrid cloud today? In this webinar, he…
Azure Enterprise Security Package for HDInsight
In today’s post I’d like to talk about the Enterprise Security Package for Azure HDInsight. HDInsight is a managed cloud Platform as a Service offering built on the Hadoop framework. It allows you to build big data solutions using Hadoop,…
A Guide to GDPR Compliance with Microsoft Data Platform
As most people know, the GDPR is approaching quickly. May 25th to be exact. Most companies will need to review or modify their database management and data handling procedures, especially focusing on the security of data processing. In a recent…