Microsoft Azure

The latest release of SQL Server 2019 has several important enhancements for high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). Let’s take a look at some of the main HA and DR changes in SQL Server 2019.

The next MJFChat is between me and Tim Warner, Pluralsight author and Microsoft MVP for Cloud and Datacenter Management. The topic of our conversation: On-premises to the Azure cloud: How to evolve your mindset.

While pretty much everybody knows that Microsoft is one of the main cloud providers with Azure, not everyone knows that Microsoft is also offering hardware-based edge computing devices. One of the newer hybrid cloud computing technologies, the edge, is essentially a distributed computing model that brings compute power and data storage closer to the location where it is needed.

Microsoft has updated both the Azure and Intune management portals for a cleaner look and better user experience.

Because this is the best reason to go to Florida, this special edition of Short Takes looks at the biggest announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2019.

Microsoft will soon begin a private preview of quantum solutions running in Azure which the company sees as the next big step for its cloud computing platform.

A first look at Microsoft Azure's new cross-platform hybrid management service, Azure Arc.

As we head towards Ignite, October had a bunch of Azure announcements but there will be even more next month.

Earlier this week, Microsoft posted strong earnings with its cloud division continuing to push the stock price higher. Announced today by the U.S Defense Department, Microsoft has won the lucrative JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) contract besting its rival Amazon as well as Oracle and other providers.

Because it’s that time of the quarter, this edition of Short Takes looks solely at Microsoft’s quarterly earnings report, which was huge for Commercial Cloud, Microsoft 365, and Windows, and not so much for Surface and Xbox. Right. Nothing changed.

Seamlessly extending your local storage to the cloud is what hybrid cloud storage appliances offer. Sometimes these hybrid cloud storage options are extensions to local storage systems or sometimes they are specifically designed for hybrid cloud storage.

Microsoft announced September 25th on its Security blog that Azure Sentinel has reached general availability. Based on Azure Monitor Log Analytics, Sentinel adds a cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution to Azure’s already long list of services.

Microsoft has a new version of Azure Data Box Edge that can fit in a backpack and runs on batteries.

Microsoft's Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available, here's what you need to know about the new service.

We are now in the middle of the second Azure (and Windows) semester of 2019. Planning for the first semester of 2020 is underway. And now we are just over 1 month away from Ignite, the week that is usually an explosion of announcements for Microsoft’s enterprise products.