Microsoft Azure offers with Azure SQL database a great alternative to an on-premise SQL database. In this post, I will talk about the advantages of having the database in the cloud, how to get data...

Azure Storage has a built-in analytics feature called Azure Storage Analytics used for collecting metrics and logging storage request activity. Storage Analytics Metrics are used to collect aggrega...

Azure Storage Tables can store tabular data at petabyte scale. Azure Queue storage is used to provide messaging between application components, as they can be de-coupled and scaled individually. A...

Azure provides several methods of storing files, including Azure Storage blobs and Azure Files. In this post, I want to talk about the differences between them and how to use them. Azure Storage b...

Azure DevTest Labs is a service designed to help developers and testers quickly spin up virtual machines (VMs) or complete environments in Azure, enabling rapid deployment and testing of applicatio...

To guarantee high availability, your applications should run on multiple identical virtual machines so that your application is not affected when a small subset of these VMs is not available due to...

To monitor VMs in Azure means collecting and analyzing different metrics as well as collection log data from system log files and from applications running within the VMs. It is possible to configu...

Azure Storage provides more functionality than just attaching data disks to your VM. In this post, I will talk about creating a file storage account, how to create and access a file share using Pow...

In Azure, it is possible to scale Azure Web Apps or Virtual Machines by increasing the size or the count of running instances. Azure also supports auto-scaling on the instance count. In this post, ...

In this post, I want to show how to use Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) and the VM Agent to perform various configuration management tasks like remote debugging and at the end,...