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Discovery and Assessment of SQL Server at Scale with Azure Migrate

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An organization’s successful cloud migration is heavily dependant on moving its on premises infrastructure to the cloud, and Azure Migrate greatly simplifies this process by allowing you to perform agentless discovery and readiness assessments of SQL server. This is an easy solution to discover your entire SQL ecosystem, and have a unified experience for assessments of your IaaS & PaaS assets. Azure Migrate offers a complete repository of tools from Microsoft and partners for your migration needs. The latest release unifies three tools for server, database and web-app assessment to create a guided start-to-finish flow. You can now perform assessments for Azure SQL Managed Instances & Azure SQL Databases. Imminent releases are expected to support integrated assessment for Azure App Service too. With this release you can discover SQL Server and databases (running in VMware) and conduct analyses of their configuration and performance, as well as check application dependencies befo...

The Benefits and Disadvantages of Serverless Infrastructure

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There are many reasons behind the rising popularity of Serverless computing: there is much higher scalability, developers get more flexibility, release time is quicker, and most of all, costs are so much lower, since you don’t have to bother about buying servers, or provisioning and managing them. So is Serverless the next big thing in cloud computing? And, specifically, is it for you? Read on to find out Where did all the servers go? To begin with the term ‘Serverless’ is misleading, there are physical servers; it just that they’re hidden from view. This means you, as the developer, don’t have to worry about setting up the infrastructure needed to run your application. Nor do you need to reserve or pay for bandwidth that you don’t need and don’t use. The job of providing the required infrastructure is done by the provider, all you have to do is write the code and deploy it. No worries about scaling, server management, maintenance or monitoring. You can leave it all to the provider. Be...

Go cloud native with Microsoft Azure

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To truly take advantage of cloud computing technologies, organizations must develop cloud native applications; in other words: applications built to run in a cloud infrastructure. What does this mean? Native Cloud Applications (NCA) are designed to take advantage of cloud frameworks, i.e. loosely coupled cloud services. This means developers have to break down tasks so they can run on discrete servers in separate locations. Since native cloud apps run on infrastructure that is not supported locally, NCAs must be redundancy-robust. As storage and services for compute can be scaled as needed there is no need to over-provision resources—hardware, load balancers, etc. NCA Characteristics Cloud native technologies allow you to run scalable single responsibility principle  (SRP) based microserver (m11) based apps in public, private or hybrid cloud-environments. m11 applications are built to do only one task, but they do it very well. m11 are also enable containerization, agility (using D...

Migration Challenges and How to Meet Them

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Cloud computing is a critical component of  digital transformation, especially now with the current work-from-home status most companies have adopted. Cloud has made even massive enterprises who traditionally worked out of on-premises IT environments, rethink their strategies. The goal now is not just to migrate to the cloud but become as native in applications and work-flows as possible. But migrating applications to the cloud calls for a structured plan. Without this, an organization can easily get bogged down by the myriad possibilities and permutations one can encounter in the migration process. This has significance in terms of jeopardy to business continuity as well as costs. Loss of revenue can run into millions of dollars. Elements of successful and secure cloud migration Planning and strategising Successful cloud migrations demand planning at a very fundamental level, and, of course, a capable team to handle any anomaly that might be encountered. The plan needs to estimate...

The WorkSpaces That are Transforming Work Places

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At any other time in history, a pandemic of the kind that is even now ravaging the world, would have brought all life to a standstill. However, thanks to the internet and cloud computing, the new normal of Work-from-home has allowed business to continue, even if it is not completely as usual. Amazon Workspaces has played a major role in ensuring business continuity through the lockdowns and other restrictions necessitated by the Covid pandemic. As a managed, virtualized and persistent desktop solution, Amazon WorkSpaces gives users the ability to access applications and data at anytime, from anywhere, via any device that supports internet connectivity. Amazon WorkSpaces is OS agnostic, so you can provision Windows or Linux systems as needed for your people to work with. You also are free of the need to provision and install hardware or software. Amazon WorkSpaces lets you add/remove users as needed, so desired users can access their virtual workspaces using any browser or device. How A...

Why Managed Services as a Cloud Strategy

Despite the enormous expense and effort involved in hosting data on premises, it cannot compare with the cloud for scalability and versitalty. Which is why so many businesses are choosing to migrate to Amazon Web Services (AWS). But opting to migrate and manage your environment (after migration) using in-house resources can be tricky. And it can end up costing you in terms of both expense and efficiency. Because the Cloud can be a complex and confusing place. Making the most of the varied solutions it offers requires specialized expertise. And the experts in this area are undoubtedly AWS Managed Service Providers. (MSP). Here are a few reasons to consider managed services as your cloud strategy. MSP as a Cloud Strategy The best time to engage an MSP is  before  you migrate your applications to AWS. Migration gives you and your MSP the best opportunity to architect the best possible cloud environment for you…one that will support your business goals and deliver performance many...

Are you making the most of cloud services?

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  As organizations across the world move to the cloud and benefit from its myriad advantages, it becomes even more imperative that you choose the cloud solution that best answers your specific objectives. As an independent provider, with a deep bench of talent with expertise backed by consistently high CSAT ratings, Teleglobal is ideally positioned to determine your actual needs and identify the best-fit cloud providers, as well as customize and manage your cloud infrastructure and services.