Month: September 2014

New D-Series Virtual Machine Sizes

Deepika Nagpal

Microsoft has announced the general availability of a new series of VM sizes for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines and Web/Worker Roles called the D-Series.

These sizes offer up to 112 GB in memory with compute processors that are approximately 60 percent faster than the A-Series VM sizes, and have up to 800 GB of local SSD disk for blazingly fast reads and writes. The D-series instances are well suited for applications that demand faster CPU performance, local disk performance, or higher memories.

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Development and Test on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Deepika Nagpal

Software development and testing is a resource-intensive activity with continually fluctuating workloads. Within many enterprises, a significant part of the installed IT infrastructure is dedicated to application development, testing and staging operations for in-house line of business applications. Unfortunately, despite the significant investment made in this infrastructure, the inability to quickly provide development and testing teams the capacity they need frequently causes delays throughout the development lifecycle as well as negatively impacts software quality and costs.

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Why Businesses should consider Cloud backup and Recovery

Evelyn Dennis

Backing up data has become a standard business practice and in most industries it is an operational requirement. Today’s fast-growing highly mobile workforce is placing new demands on IT.  As data growth increases, it finds its way onto laptops, desktops etc increasing security breach. Today, most companies have data protection and data security best practices in place to protect sensitive information while keeping IT costs in check.

When instituting a backup strategy, there are several factors to consider before choosing a method. These factors can help businesses determine whether a cloud backup solution would be more secure, cost-effective and reliable than portable media backup, such as tapes, for their organization. Read more →