CloudOps blog

Introduction

As your organisation goes through the process of virtualising more IT systems, choosing the right
cloud provider to manage your subscriptions and infrastructure becomes critical to your business’ long-term success.

Introduction

The cloud is an amazing but complex platform and making the most of it can be difficult without experience.

Although Azure patch management may not be the most exciting topic, it is a critical aspect of maintaining the security and stability of cloud infrastructure. If you don't have regular housekeeping processes for your cloud deployments then you are leaving vulnerabilities unaddressed. It is important to realise that this can create larger and larger problems over time.

In this article, we will explore the concept of designing cloud architecture with Azure resilience in mind and discuss best practices to achieve it. We will also look at how our experience as a Microsoft Azure partner can help you shortcut the learning curve.

Following the initial migration of your IT services to the cloud, you may find that as your needs change, you find your Azure costs rising.  This is normal:  adding more services, or upgrading the virtual machines that you run to improve performance will naturally incur higher charges.  It’s important to manage your cloud costs in order to allow for efficient scale.

How do you make something good even better?

Summary

Monitor multiple Kubernetes environments across multiple AWS and Azure deployments all in one place. Monitoring Kubernetes across cloud providers just became a lot easier using CloudOps as your Kubernetes monitoring tool.

The use of DevOps is a hot topic at the moment and there are endless tutorials or tools which allow you to manage the process. This article isn't about that, it doesn't advocate for DevOps one way or the other, it is written to explain what DevOps actually is and remove the buzzwords. 

When properly managed and configured to the specific needs of your application or service, Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS both offer substantial performance advantages over traditional server infrastructure.  Unfortunately, without the advice and support of a specialist, it’s unlikely that your organisation is fully benefiting from the flexibility, scale and improved reliability that’s available with a genuine and bespoke cloud deployment.

For many independent software vendors (ISVs) the need to move their applications to the cloud has been gathering pace for a number of years. The expectation that an application can be accessed by anyone, from anywhere, means that to compete with competitors a key requirement is to move to a Software as a Service (SaaS) model with applications available from the cloud.