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Defined severity levels quickly get responders and stakeholders on the same page on the impact of the incident, and they set expectations for the level of response effort — both of which help you fix the problem faster. But sometimes, for whatever reason, a severity level just doesn’t get set. Maybe there’s confusion around what severity level to use. Or maybe you have a low barrier to declaration and your responders just need a little nudge.

Azure File Storage, a component of Microsoft Azure’s broader cloud services, is a managed file storage service for the cloud. Its fundamental design is to create, manage, and share file systems securely and easily using standard protocols supported by most operating systems. It offers fully managed file shares in the cloud accessible via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) and Network File System (NFS) protocols.

As the digital world continues to evolve, the realm of virtualization is gaining increasing traction. At the heart of this evolution is the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), a pivotal component of Microsoft’s System Center suite. By providing comprehensive management capabilities for virtualized datacenter environments, SCVMM presents a modern solution for today’s complex IT infrastructures.

On this episode of Densify Talks, Josh and Andrew discuss automated instance selection and the importance of letting machines make the resource decisions as cloud environments scale. Speaking from the perspective of a hardware manufacturer, Josh offers unique insight into some of the criteria that affect the performance and cost of hosting apps in the cloud, and how to leverage “optimization as code” to automate the optimization process.