Save big by using your on-premises licenses on Azure

By Dustin Ward

Are you still hesitating to move some or all your workloads to the cloud due to the added cost? One of the easiest ways to significantly lower your cost of ownership is by using a special licensing offer called Azure Hybrid Benefit. When migrating Windows Server or SQL Server on-premises workloads to Microsoft Azure, Azure…

Azure DDoS Protection—2021 Q3 and Q4 DDoS attack trends

By Dustin Ward

This blog post was co-authored by Anupam Vij, Principal PM Manager, and Syed Pasha, Principal Network Engineer, Azure Networking In the second half of 2021, the world experienced an unprecedented level of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) activity in both complexity and frequency. The gaming industry was perhaps the hardest hit, with DDoS attacks disrupting gameplay of…

Rightsize to maximize your cloud investment with Microsoft Azure

By Dustin Ward

If you are running on-premises servers, chances are that you utilize a fraction of your overall server cores most of the time but are forced to over-provision to handle peak loads. Moving those workloads to the cloud can greatly reduce cost by “rightsizing” server capacity as needed. Rightsizing is one of the key levers you…