by Vatsana Kongtakane | Mar 1, 2017 | Azure, Blog
Earlier last month, Microsoft announced the general availability of managed disks. This has been one of the most heavily requested Azure features in the past for many reasons. Below are some big benefits of managed disks: Centralized management and automatic…
by Vatsana Kongtakane | Jan 5, 2017 | Azure, Blog
A series, D series, DS series, F Series, G series, H Series. Azure offers many different types of SKUs at different price points. As you start to leverage the cloud more and more, you will sooner or later take performance and pricing into consideration if you…
by Vatsana Kongtakane | Dec 29, 2016 | Azure, Blog
With being able to bring up and tear down VMs in a matter of minutes in Azure, it’s easy to lose visibility of our VM workloads. This is where Azure Security Center fills that gap. When enabled, it constantly collects data and reports about your VM workloads and…
by Vatsana Kongtakane | Dec 22, 2016 | Azure, Blog
While I was changing diagnostics storage settings in Azure, I started getting error messages for some of my VMs while de-allocating them or powering them up and down. Failed to start virtual machine ‘vm-name’. Error: Handler…
by Vatsana Kongtakane | Oct 21, 2016 | Azure, Blog
Recently, while deciding on an Azure VM for a customer’s particular needs, we started comparing the DS_v2 series and GS series VMs. One thing that caught our attention was the rather large gap in monthly pricing between the DS13_v2 and GS2 VMs. The DS13_V2 is…