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What's New in Turbo360 - Azure Cost Analyzer Improvements, Anomaly Detection Enhancements...

Turbo360's Product Owner, Michael Stephenson, brings you the latest updates in the Azure cost management and monitoring platform. This video highlights exciting new UI themes, enhanced widget features, and improved cost analysis tools—all designed to boost your productivity and deliver deeper insights.

Building Robust Solutions on Azure: Insights from Industry Experts

Building robust solutions on Azure is essential in today’s cloud-driven world, where performance, availability, and resilience are the cornerstones of successful applications. In a recent episode of Azure on Air podcast, we brought together leading Azure experts to dive deep into these critical aspects of cloud architecture. From overcoming the challenges of distributed systems to mastering performance optimization, the conversation explored the ins and outs of creating high-performing, reliable solutions on Microsoft Azure.

End to end tracking of Azure Function Apps

In this video, Mike Stephenson explores a practical use case for gaining transparency in Azure Function integrations that help in end-to-end tracking of Azure Function Apps. Discover how leveraging Application Insights can help your team gain visibility into hidden integrations and improve operational efficiency. Learn how one customer successfully implemented this solution to streamline their processes and reduce support ticket escalations.

Northern Exposure: the confidence connecting Scotland and the Nordics to drive data centre evolution

Scotland has a strong historical record in seeking out and supporting data centre investment. The Green Datacentres and Digital Connectivity: Vision and Action plan is already four years old. However, time has not dampened enthusiasm. The renewed interest in data centre investment that has followed encouraging comments from Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has spread across the UK.

Cloud Migration Benefits - and the Challenges to Overcome

Cloud migration has become a strategic priority for many organizations. By moving data, applications and IT resources from on-premises infrastructure to a cloud-based environment, they can see multiple benefits. But cloud migration also comes with its own unique challenges. Gaining a deeper understanding of both the benefits and possible pitfalls of cloud computing is crucial before embarking on your cloud journey.

Understanding Provisioning In IT: A Complete Guide For 2024

Your IT infrastructure, resources, and components play a crucial role in your system performance, security, and overall health. Provisioning is often one of the very first steps toward setting up the right environment for your workload requirements – both locally and in the cloud. Here’s a handy guide to how provisioning works in IT. We’ll also share a tool to help you prevent overprovisioning and waste by automating provisioning in the cloud.

How OnlineOrNot more than halved its AWS bill

Chances are, you've heard one of the main promises of serverless compute: "you only pay for what you use". While convenient when starting a new project, once you start to get continuous usage on that compute, you start to realize you're paying a hefty premium for that convenience. If you're using AWS Lambda like I am, chances are that "for what you use" part isn't completely true either.

Local presence today, global potential tomorrow: using colocation to access an ecosystem that drives growth

In an era where modern commerce is inseparable from technology, digital transformation has become crucial for businesses to survive and thrive in all markets. Scotland has led the way in understanding the impact of this shift. In August 2023, the Independent Expert Group (IEG) on Unlocking the Value of Data delivered its report to the Digital Directorate, covering private sector use of public sector personal data.