Disaster Recovery (DR) refers to the set of policies and procedures in place to ensure the continuity and recovery of mission critical systems in the event of a disruptive event such as a power outage, flood, or cyberattack. In other words, how quickly can you get your computers and systems up and running after a…
Don’t be frustrated. We are almost half way through. Continue on Part 2…. Azure Database Services: Azure Database Services are fully managed Paas database services. Azure database services are fully managed, freeing up valuable time you’d otherwise spend managing your database so you can focus on new ways to delight your users and unlock opportunities….
You don’t have to worry about learning azure concepts. Get started here: Agile: Agility means reacting fast. Cloud agility is the ability to rapidly change an IT infrastructure to adapt to the evolving needs of the business. For example, if your service peaks one month, you can scale to demand and pay a larger bill…
Iaas, Paas, Saas are the major three major categories of cloud services. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service): Using Iaas, you can create your own virtual machines or storage, firewalls, load balancers, IP addresses, network, OS, etc. Iaas is an instant computing infrastructure available for you to use by paying for what you use. It aims…
Cloud computing is renting resources, like storage space or CPU cycles, on another company’s computers. Cloud Computing is delivering various computing services over the internet. You only pay for what you use. The company providing these services is referred to as a cloud provider. Some example providers are Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. The cloud provider…
Load balancing provides a higher level of availability and scale by spreading incoming requests across multiple virtual machines. You can use the Azure portal to create a load balancer to load balance virtual machines. This quickstart shows you how to create network resources, backend servers, and a public Basic Load Balancer. If you don’t have…
Scalability: “Increasing” the capacity to meet the “increasing” workload. Elasticity: “Increasing or reducing” the capacity to meet the “increasing or reducing” workload. Scalability: In a scaling environment, the available resources may exceed to meet the “future demands”. Elasticity: In the elastic environment, the available resources match the “current demands” as closely as possible. Scalability: Scalability adapts only to the “workload…