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Azure Availability Zones Quick Tour and Guide
Three years ago, I started working with a big Microsoft partner on moving infrastructure and...
Date: 05/03/2018
Why Azure Availability Zones
Working with several Microsoft ISVs around the world, I heard loud and clear about an important...
Date: 10/08/2017
Azure SQL Data Sync Test Drive and First Impressions
Azure SQL Data Sync is a service of Azure SQL Database that enables you to synchronize relational...
Date: 07/06/2017
Using PowerShell as an Azure ARM REST API Client
Yes, this is probably another post explaining how to use Azure ARM REST API using PowerShell, I am...
Date: 06/28/2017
My personal Azure FAQ on Azure Networking (v3)
Last updated: April 6th, 2017. IMPORTANT: The information I reported in this post is time sensitive...
Date: 04/06/2017
Azure Managed Disks Deep Dive, Lessons Learned and Benefits
[bing_translator] Introduction Managed Disks have been recently released for production (February...
Date: 03/14/2017
My Personal FAQ on Azure Networking and ARM
Last updated: July 24, 2016. IMPORTANT: The information I reported in this post is time sensitive...
Date: 07/24/2016
Azure Network Security Groups (NSG) - Best Practices and Lessons Learned
While Virtual Network (VNET) is the cornerstone of Azure networking model and provides isolation and...
Date: 05/14/2016
How to change Subnet and Virtual Network for Azure Virtual Machines (ASM & ARM)
During the lifecycle of an Azure Virtual Machines (VM), you may encounter situations where you need...
Date: 03/13/2016
Hub&Spoke, Daisy-Chain and Full-Mesh VNET topologies in Azure ARM (V2)
IMPORTANT: This is an updated version, using Azure PowerShell ARM module later than 1.0.0 release,...
Date: 02/11/2016
Azure ARM: SQL Server High-Availability and Multi-Datacenter Disaster Recovery with Internal Load Balancers (ILB)
Introduction I already posted in my blog several articles related to high-availability (HA) and...
Date: 01/26/2016
Configure an ILB listener for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups in Azure ARM
This blog post is essentially a porting to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) of the article below,...
Date: 01/25/2016
Azure ARM: VM Domain Join to Active Directory Domain with "JoinDomain" Extension
It is a pretty common scenario to provision a Virtual Machine (VM) in Azure and join it to an...
Date: 01/25/2016
How to Set a Static Internal Private IP (DIP) for Azure VM in ARM
With the recent introduction of new Azure PowerShell modules generation, starting with version...
Date: 01/20/2016
SQL Server in Azure: Compare PaaS (SQLDB) and IaaS (Virtual Machine)
During the last year, Azure SQLDB team made a great job in porting an amazing number of new features...
Date: 12/05/2015
Azure VM Resizing and SKU Change in ASM and ARM
One of the major benefit of the Cloud is the possibility to dynamically change the type and size of...
Date: 11/04/2015
Hub&Spoke, Daisy-Chain and Full-Mesh VNET topologies in Azure ARM using VPN (V1)
IMPORTANT: This is an old version using Azure PowerShell ARM module earlier than 1.0.0 release. If...
Date: 10/01/2015
Multi-Terabyte SQL Server Database Backup Strategies for Azure Virtual Machines
With the advent of DS-SERIES and GS-SERIES with Premium Storage, now running big databases in Azure...
Date: 07/28/2015
Efficient SQL Server in Azure VM Backup Strategies using DS-SERIES and Premium Storage
With the advent of DS-SERIES and GS-SERIES with Premium Storage, now running big databases in Azure...
Date: 06/28/2015
Azure SQLDB and SQL Server VM - How to make an equal cost comparison
Azure SQLDB is one of my favorite technologies and I often have to talk and work with my partners...
Date: 03/20/2015
Register an Azure VM Image from VHDs
During my recent activities for one of my partners, an interesting request raised: how we can export...
Date: 02/19/2015
SQL Server 2014 High-Availability and Multi-Datacenter Disaster Recovery with Multiple Azure ILBs
I already posted in my blog several articles related to high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery...
Date: 12/22/2014
Azure A-SERIES, D-SERIES and G-SERIES: Consistent Performances and Size Change Considerations
LAST UPDATED: November 11th, 2015. Thank you for visiting this page, before going forward, let me...
Date: 11/11/2014
Azure Storage secrets and Linux I/O optimizations
Last Updated: December 9th 2015. I decided to write this blog post to talk to two different...
Date: 10/23/2014
My personal Azure FAQ on Azure Networking SLAs, bandwidth, latency, performance, SLB, DNS, DMZ, VNET, IPv6 and much more
Last updated: May 17, 2015 (including BUILD and IGNITE announcements). IMPORTANT: The information I...
Date: 09/28/2014
Deep Dive: SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups and Cross-Region Virtual Networks in Azure
SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG) is a great technology for high-availability and...
Date: 07/03/2014
UPDATED: New White-Paper on SQL Server 2014 and Azure Blob storage integration
Last April I published, with my colleague Francesco Cogno, a big white paper on SQL Server 2014 and...
Date: 06/22/2014
Best Practices & Disaster Recovery for Storage Spaces and Pools in Azure
With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft introduced a very nice feature called “Storage...
Date: 06/10/2014
Microsoft Azure Universal Storage for SQL Server 2014
I finally decided to write this blog post after the recent announcement, at last US TechEd in May,...
Date: 05/28/2014
Azure SQLDB Basic, Standard and Premium Tiers - Quick glimpse and first impressions
After the recent BUILD conference, Microsoft team responsible for SQL Database development clearly...
Date: 04/28/2014
New White-Paper on SQL Server 2014 and Azure Blob storage integration
This required a long work with my good friend and colleague Francesco Cogno (Twitter: @MindFlavor),...
Date: 04/16/2014
SQL Server 2014: Inside Hekaton Natively Compiled Stored Procedures
During the last period, I spent some time with several Microsoft ISVs around the world, talking and...
Date: 01/15/2014
Synchronous vs Asynchronous Transaction Commit Trading for Performances with Delayed Transaction Durability
Let me start this new blog post asking you a question: Which is your general approach when a new...
Date: 01/07/2014
Azure Network Latency & SQL Server Optimization
During some of my recent partner engagements, I had the opportunity to test deeply the Azure network...
Date: 12/15/2013
Azure Architectural Pattern - Implementing Master-Slave Model in IaaS
During the last two years, I had the privilege to work with some important Microsoft Global...
Date: 12/09/2013
How to create a SQL Server Linked Server to HDInsight HIVE using Microsoft Hive ODBC Driver
Last October 28th Microsoft finally released a new Azure service called “Windows Azure...
Date: 11/12/2013
Create a SQL Server 2014 Database directly on Azure Blob storage with SQLXI
Last week, at SQL PASS summit, Microsoft announced availability of SQL Server 2014 CTP2,...
Date: 10/23/2013
New Azure FastTrack VM image for SQL Server 2014 CTP2 (FTDW)
Hi all, I already covered in details, only five days ago, what is inside “Fast Track” VM...
Date: 10/16/2013
Deep-dive on New Azure FastTrack VM image (FTDW)
If you are a regular Azure VM Image Gallery visitor like me, probably you noticed that we recently...
Date: 10/11/2013
SQL Server VM Disaster Recovery between AZURE and AMAZON
Some days ago, a recent article from former Microsoft employee Michael Washam...
Date: 09/25/2013
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Group and Listener in Azure VMs: Notes, Details and Recommendations
If you are running, or going to run in the future, SQL Server inside Azure Virtual Machines, your...
Date: 09/02/2013
Manually adding a VPN Gateway to Azure Virtual Network
In this blog post, I’m going to show you how is possible to add a VPN Gateway, to an existing...
Date: 08/27/2013
SQL Server Database Backup in Azure IaaS: performance tests….
In this blog post, I want to show you some performance test results obtained tweaking many different...
Date: 07/30/2013