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The Benefits and Challenges of Managing Hybrid Estates

More and more organizations are migrating their data to the cloud but the majority are likely to end up managing hybrid estates, with some data managed through a cloud provider and some managed locally. This leads to some unique issues, especially around monitoring and services. If the objective of migrating to the cloud is simply to implement virtual machines (VMs) in a different location than you traditionally do, there will be fewer challenges.

Cloud storage for enterprises

Any data-centric organisation faces the prospect of data growth at some point in their existence; it is estimated that more than 2,500 Petabytes (PB) of new data is created every day. While only a few organisations will ever have to deal with that kind of scale, it is important to plan ahead for your own organisation’s growth. Legacy appliance-based storage systems where hardware and software are closely coupled can be expensive to maintain, expand, and difficult to operate.

How To Monitor AWS EC2 With MetricFire

AWS EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) has revolutionized the way businesses operate in the cloud. With its scalable and flexible infrastructure, EC2 allows organizations to easily deploy virtual servers and manage their computing resources efficiently. However, as your EC2 environment grows, monitoring becomes crucial to ensure optimal performance, security, and cost optimization. One powerful solution for monitoring AWS EC2 is Hosted Graphite by MetricFire, a comprehensive graphing and monitoring service.

Using Azure Policy to Enforce Storage Account Compliance

Ever had a migraine thinking about how to ensure compliance for your Azure Storage Accounts? You’re not alone. Companies worldwide struggle to maintain consistency, especially when it comes to cloud storage. That’s where Azure Policy comes into play. This article is a comprehensive guide that will walk you through everything you need to know about using Azure Policy to enforce compliance on your Azure Storage Accounts.

Top 8 things you should know about deploying RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ is a household name in the world of application development and system architecture. Acting as a middleman for communication, it seamlessly bridges the gap between various application components. If you’ve been contemplating the integration of RabbitMQ into your infrastructure or simply want to better understand its functionalities, this blog post is for you. Here are the top 8 things to know.

Azure: The Ultimate Guide to Microsoft's Cloud Computing Platform

Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate and manage their data. With the vast amounts of information being generated daily, traditional on-premises infrastructure struggles to keep up with the demands of scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness. This is where Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform, comes into play. Azure provides a comprehensive set of tools and services that enable organizations to build, deploy, and manage applications and services on a global scale.

Tutorial: Collecting Logs From Azure Block Blob Storage Account

Sumo Logic’s Azure Block Blob Storage solution provides an event-based pipeline for shipping monitoring data to Sumo Logic. This tutorial describes the Azure-Sumo event-based pipeline along with its components, and elaborates the data flow in the pipeline. The video also explains the Azure Resource Management (ARM) template that is used to build most of the components in the pipeline.

Azure Event Hub logging, monitoring and alerting

Here is a blog about Azure Event Hubs monitoring and how Serverless360 helps you do it. Azure Event Hub is an event collection service and big data streaming platform. It is highly scalable and can handle millions of events per second. Azure Event Hubs are simple, secure real-time data and instantly connect millions of devices across platforms.