4 cloud cost optimization strategies with Microsoft Azure

By Dustin Ward

We have seen many businesses make significant shifts toward cloud computing in the last decade. The Microsoft Azure public cloud offers many benefits to companies, such as increased flexibility, scalability, and availability of resources. However, with the increased usage of resources, implementing best practices in cloud efficiency is a necessity to validate spending and avoid…

5 reasons to join us at Securely Migrate and Optimize with Azure

By Dustin Ward

Did you know you can lower operating costs by 40 percent1 when you migrate Windows Server and SQL Server to Azure versus on-premises? Furthermore, you can improve IT efficiency and operating costs by 53 percent by automating management of your virtual machines in cloud and hybrid environments2. To maximize the value of your existing cloud…

Azure VMware Solution in Microsoft Azure Government streamlines migration efforts

By Dustin Ward

Today we are pleased to announce the public preview of Azure VMware Solution in Microsoft Azure Government. With this release, we are combining VMware cloud technologies with world-class Azure infrastructure in Azure Government, which is designed, built, and supported by Microsoft to help meet the highest levels of government security and compliance. Azure Government delivers…

DDoS Mitigation with Microsoft Azure Front Door

By Dustin Ward

This blog post was authored by Dave Burkhardt, Principal Product Manager, and co-authored by Harikrishnan M B, Program Manager, and Yun Zheng, Sr Program Manager. Within the last few years, the complexity and size of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have increased dramatically across the industry. As we reported previously, TCP, UDP, and DNS-based attacks are still…

Lessons learned optimizing Microsoft’s internal use of Azure

By Dustin Ward

At Microsoft, we learned a lot from moving our internal operations to Microsoft Azure, lessons we use to make our cloud products work better for our customers. As a top user of Azure, we understand our customers’ obstacles and constraints. Just like them, we’re under pressure to “do more with less” in these challenging fiscal…