Articles tagged Cloud

Babul Bansal in Google

Application Load Balancing In Google Cloud

A load balancer is a tool used to distribute the traffic (client requests) to multiple servers on which the applications are deployed so that the...

31 May 2024 18 min read

Blogs

Dennes Torres in Blogs

Azure Storage Policies: Control SAS from the server side

*Update at the end Azure Storage Policies are around for some time already, but they manage to stay unnoticed. This feature is very powerful and...

14 March 2022 3 min read

Blogs

Dennes Torres in Blogs

Creating Views in Azure Portal

Resource groups and subscriptions sometimes are not enough to organize the content of our Azure Portal. I was preparing for a presentation and looking into...

18 October 2021 2 min read

Blogs

Dennes Torres in Blogs

ARM Template Visualizer

Recently a new feature appeared in Azure Portal, an ARM Template Visualizer, capable to show a graphic view of the resources inside an ARM template....

11 October 2021 2 min read

Blogs

Dennes Torres in Blogs

Template Specs: Storing ARM templates on Azure

Infrastructure as code is evolving in large steps to improve the way we build and manage cloud infrastructure. ARM templates is the Azure way to...

04 October 2021 5 min read

Blogs

Dennes Torres in Blogs

10 things everyone needs to know about Azure Cost management

1 – Azure Hybrid Benefit Azure services related to servers and direct infrastructure reservation require software licenses, such as Windows Server and SQL Server. Microsoft...

27 September 2021 7 min read

Blogs

Dennes Torres in Blogs

Using Power BI to Analyse Azure Costs

Azure Cost Management is in constant evolution to help manage the cost of services in the cloud. Microsoft provides the Azure Cost Management Power BI...

06 September 2021 3 min read

Blogs

Dennes Torres in Blogs

Using Power BI to Query Log Analytics

Log Analytics is a basic tool for the entire Azure environment, I wrote about it before. The possibility to access log analytics data from a...

24 May 2021 5 min read

Blogs

Dennes Torres in Blogs

Azure Static Web Apps: Bring Your Own Function (BYOF)

Azure technologies evolve so fast sometimes we lose track of what’s happening. One day, a simple technology is created, on the next day, it becomes...

18 May 2021 4 min read

Robert Sheldon

The Logical Data Warehouse – Towards a Single View of All the Data

What is wrong with the Enterprise Data Warehouse? Quite a lot, it seems. By taking the narrow view that the struggle is that of accommodating...

09 November 2015 14 min read

Robert Sheldon

OpenStack: The Good and Not-So-Good Bits

OpenStack holds a great deal of promise as a cloud platform built on open standards, and has support from the major players in cloud services....

03 September 2015 15 min read

Robert Sheldon

Working with SQL Server data in Power BI Desktop

What's the best way of providing self-service business intelligence (BI) to data that is held in on-premise SQL Server? Not, it seems, Power BI 2.0...

24 August 2015 24 min read

Robert Sheldon

An Introduction to the OpenPOWER Foundation

In a bid to challenge Intel's dominance of high performance computing environments, IBM have introduced OpenPOWER, a flexible open-source framework based on their POWER processor...

03 August 2015 12 min read

Robert Sheldon

Microservices in Promise and Practice

Are microservices the cure for the ague of monolithic applications, or do they bring their own problems with them that monolithic architectures have circumvented? Are...

13 April 2015 18 min read

Robert Sheldon

The Internet of Things: A New World Order?

Was the marketing hook 'The Internet of Things' conjured up before the technical definition? Are we being persuaded to spend money on fending off yet...

10 March 2015 15 min read

Robert Sheldon

Application Containers For Cloud Computing

Containers promise to make applications more portable and efficient. The technology, originally based on Linux's cgroups, provides a way of running several applications as modular,...

11 February 2015 12 min read

AWS

Robert Sheldon in AWS

Amazon’s Aurora: A Distributed SQL Database Alternative For MySQL Applications

SQL-based distributed Cloud Relational databases aren't new, but Amazon's Aurora offers an alternative to SQL Azure, and, being MySQL-compatible, provides the obvious route to the...

15 January 2015 13 min read

Jaap Wesselius

Cloud Identities versus Federated Identities in Office 365

Identities, the 'accounts' by which Cloud and Web users identify themselves, are tricky to manage, and tiresome for the users. Cloud services such as Office...

01 December 2014 8 min read

Robert Sheldon

Stop Relying on Cloud File Stores as a Backup Strategy

There is a growing assumption that Cloud file-storage services represent an ideal way of backing up files. It seems a compelling idea because it is...

22 October 2014 17 min read

Robert Sheldon

Deleting Files in the Cloud

The public perception is that, when something is deleted, it no longer exists. IT in general prefers the fuzzier idea of the trashcan, where the...

23 September 2014 15 min read