Barracuda Networks today launched a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) service that runs natively on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Klaus Gheri, vice president of network security for Barracuda Networks, said Microsoft has made it possible to launch an SD-WAN service using Azure Virtual WAN Hubs, a networking service based on a hub-and-spoke architecture that unifies […]
AWS Looks to Accelerate Windows Migrations to the Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ratcheting up pressure on Microsoft by devoting more resources to enable IT organizations to migrate Windows workloads to the cloud. Fred Wurden, general manager for enterprise engineering at AWS, said a Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) for Windows, now generally available, provides IT teams with prescriptive guidance, consulting support, tools, training […]
Nerdio Unfurls Management Tools for WVD on Azure
Nerdio has launched a management tool that makes it easier to provision large numbers of virtual desktops on the Microsoft Azure public cloud. Company CEO Vadim Vladimirskiy said that now that Microsoft is finally encouraging organizations to embrace desktop virtualization in the form of its Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service, there is a need for […]
Datadog Adds Support for Microsoft Azure DevOps
Datadog has added support for Microsoft Azure DevOps to its namesake monitoring and analytics platform. Ilan Rabinovitch, vice president of product and community for Datadog, said Microsoft Azure DevOps, formally known as Visual Studio Team Services, is gaining traction as a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. […]
How Serverless Is Impacting the IT Landscape
Although most users will never realize it, with every digital data entry and exchange servers are consuming substantial quantities of energy to file, store and sustain that data’s availability. While the average consumer or office worker doesn’t consider the economic or environmental impact they have, IT and C-Suite teams are awakening to the problem and […]
RDX Eases Oracle Database Migration to PostgreSQL on AWS
RDX this week launched a set of tools designed to make it easier to convert applications running on an Oracle database to Amazon Aurora, an instance of an open source PostgreSQL database running on the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud that is compatible with Oracle databases. Announced at the AWS Summit event in Washington D.C., […]
Pre-Commit Job Workflow in Azure DevOps
Many organizations use a combination of open so Many organizations use a combination of open source and commercial tools and Azure DevOps (formerly called VSTS) and an application lifecycle management (ALM) tool that includes features such as Azure pipelines. This article talks about how to achieve an end-to-end DevOps setup in Azure Pre-requisites: Subscription Project […]
Logz.io Unveils Azure Open Source ELK Monitoring Solution
Needless to say, DevOps as a practice is largely fueled by open source. The growth and popularity of open source tools such as Elasticsearch, Kubernetes and others are driven largely by the increased flexibility, innovation and familiarity of options. While this isn’t news for developers (65% of which are active open source contributors), leading cloud […]
Deploying into Azure App Service using Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline
This article demonstrates how to deploy an application into Azure App Service using Azure DevOps (VSTS) continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. In this article, you’ll create a sample environment to: New build based on code commit to your Azure DevOps Repo. Automatically deploy your app into Azure. Prerequisites: Azure Portal Account, Azure subscription and Azure […]
Bitnami Offers Popular Application with Managed Database Configuration in Azure Marketplace
Multi-tier Packages of WordPress and Drupal with Azure Database Services Remove Complexity of Deploying Enterprise Configurations SAN FRANCISCO, CA – January 15, 2018 —Bitnami, the leading provider of application packaging, is excited to announce the availability of WordPress and Drupal pre-configured with support for Azure Database for MariaDB in the Azure Marketplace. Bitnami has collaborated […]