Hybrid Cloud Weekly
Control Cloud Cost With Azure Dev\Test Labs
We’ve been hearing from a lot of customers about all kinds of challenges they’ve been facing in their Dev/Test environments. With the power of cloud, some problems have started being solved such as the hardware maintenance cost. On the other hand, there are still a few problems many customers have to deal with day to day, especially:
- The delays in delivering environments to developers/testers that are introduced by the traditional environments request model;
- Time-consuming environment configuration;
- Production fidelity issues;
- And the high cost of the cloud resource management in order to optimize the resource usage.
The Windows Server 2016 Application Platform – Nano Server, Containers and DevOps
There has been a lot of press on Nano Server and Containers as new technologies coming in Windows Server 2016. In this blog post we’ll discuss how these two technologies are core pieces of the Windows Server 2016 developer/DevOps solution, discuss the full inbox stack, and provide links to additional resources to get you started. In addition to this post, at Build 2016, Taylor Brown and I presented a session with demos on this topic. The recording is available on Channel9.
Build, Ship, Run with Docker and Microsoft
Microsoft and Docker aim to provide a modern platform for developers and IT pros to build, ship and run distributed applications on-premise, in the cloud or through service providers across both Windows and Linux operating systems. Together we are bringing container applications across platforms - integrating across our developer tools, the operating system and cloud infrastructure to provide a seamless experience across the application environment from development to test and production.
https://www.docker.com/microsoft
Azure Hybrid Cloud: Cost Reduction, Increased Agility and Improved Scalability
Want consistent management across your on-premises and cloud resources and to quickly deploy new scalable solutions? This session will focus on how you can leverage the hypercloud to extend and modernize your database infrastructure.
In this session, Kevin Orbaker (MTC Architect) shares his experience leveraging the cloud and discusses:
- Hybrid Cloud Services
- How to increase the scale of your database with automatic response
- How to write once and deploy anywhere, on-premises or in the cloud
- How to scale operations while reducing application and OS footprint
SQL 2016 Stretch Databases On Azure
Stretch Database leverages the resources in Microsoft Azure to offload archival data storage and query processing.
When you enable Stretch Database on a database, it creates a secure linked server definition in the on-premises SQL Server. This linked server definition has the remote endpoint as the target. When you enable Stretch Database on a table in the database, it provisions remote resources and begins to migrate eligible data, if migration is enabled.