The automatic security updates your business enjoys are coming to an end in 2019, leaving you vulnerable to data breaches and other risk factors. Microsoft is sunsetting support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 and will do the same for Windows Server 2008 & 2008 R2...
Recently, Microsoft announced that Azure Cost Management would be available for enterprise customers. Azure Cost Management provides a native cost management solution for enterprise customers, which allows organizations to manage and optimize Azure costs across their subscriptions using in-product tools. In addition to Azure Cost...
With all the talk of cloud recently, it’s easy to forget we still have significant on-premise management needs. Constantly evolving applications have thrown systems administrators into an entirely new management paradigm, and the need to stay ahead of the management curve is becoming even more...
Microsoft 365 is one of the more recent products to come out of Microsoft Cloud. The nomenclature has introduced some confusion with its relationship to Office 365. Given the similarity in names, many take it for the same product. Office 365 is only a part of...
Whether you weren't able to attend our latest seminar at Cortex, or did join us and simply want to review the information we shared, check out the presentation to get a better understanding of Azure, and find out how it can work for your business. We...
In a modern datacenter world, one question comes up frequently: “Should we move (even part of) our data center to the cloud?” Many companies consider the cost of hosting servers in a local data center or on-premise as only the physical server hardware cost. This misleads...
We made it through – and nearly to – another year. Every year at this time, I like to reflect on the company, and think about what worked well – and what didn’t go quite as planned – as a guide for planning the upcoming...
I think it’s time to finally admit that Microsoft is growing up. Its Azure cloud offering is more mature than ever, and they’ve even started to submit to the idea that customers aren’t running an all-Microsoft network. Our latest offerings from Microsoft include excellent support...
