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By Nadeem Ahamed
Azure blob storage has become one of the prevalent storage services being used by organizations to store unstructured data. As the usage of blob storage increases, the associated cost will quickly accumulate and impact the Azure budgets significantly.
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By Mohan Nagaraj
We at Turbo360 are thrilled to announce our partnership with Black Marble, a renowned leader in high-quality software development and innovative solutions. With their extensive expertise across the Microsoft platform and commitment to delivering exceptional user experiences, Black Marble brings a wealth of knowledge and skill to our collaborative efforts.
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By Paola Annis
Since containers revolutionized resources utilization and their cost by significantly increasing VM densities, understanding Azure Container Instance Pricing is key for making informed decisions about your containerized apps. ACI is the serverless option within Azure, to provision additional compute for demanding and highly scalable workloads. Knowing the ACI pricing, you can optimize costs while efficiently deploying your containers in a managed service that will optimize your operations.
In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, Azure stands out as a powerhouse for businesses seeking scalable, reliable, and efficient solutions. One of the fundamental aspects of Azure’s appeal is its vast array of resources catering to diverse needs. Azure offers a rich ecosystem of resources, ranging from virtual machines (VMs) and storage accounts to databases, networking components, and beyond.
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By Nadeem Ahamed
Many articles that you may find on the web discuss the importance of reducing Azure costs by identifying and removing unused resources. Still, they often fall short of providing practical methods to achieve this. However, Turbo360 has introduced a new feature that simplifies identifying idle or unattached Azure VM disks, eliminating the need for complex queries or PowerShell scripts.
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By Srihari Senthil
In the digital era, where data reigns supreme, the ability to extract meaningful insights from vast datasets has become indispensable. Though we have many data sources and data processing languages, SQL (Structured Query Language) stands as a cornerstone in this realm, empowering analysts, and data scientists to navigate through intricate databases with ease.
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By Paola Annis
As businesses increasingly migrate to the cloud, understanding the intersections of data transfer expenses is very important. In this article, we’ll break down what Azure Data Transfer Costs entail, explore various types of data transfers, explore Azure Bandwidth pricing, identify the possible factors influencing data transfer costs, and some strategies for optimizing expenses.
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By Nadeem Ahamed
Today many of your cloud solutions will be connected to a private network within Microsoft Azure for purposes like: An Azure virtual network can support a number of different IaaS, PaaS or SaaS resources being connected to it to support your growing cloud network estate.
Azure provides a wide array of services, each with its own pricing model. Conducting detailed cost analysis helps organizations understand where their money is being spent within Azure. It allows them to identify areas of overspending or underutilization and optimize their resources accordingly. By analysing costs, organizations can identify unused or underutilized resources and either scale them down or decommission them altogether.
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By Mohan Nagaraj
We are delighted to share with you an exciting development that underscores our ongoing commitment to providing exceptional Azure management solutions. Turbo360 and TwoConnect, trusted partners in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, are joining forces to elevate your cloud journey to new heights. Our partnership with TwoConnect isn’t merely a recent collaboration; it’s a testament to the enduring bond forged over time.
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By Turbo360
Azure Storage Cost Optimization | How to reduce Azure Storage Costs? Azure MVP Michael Stephenson (aka Mike) introduces a new feature in Turbo360 that aims to optimize Azure storage costs. He begins by explaining customers' challenges with Azure's lifecycle policies and their desire for more control over optimization processes.
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By Turbo360
Azure MVP, Michael Stephenson (aka Mike) walks through a practical example of Azure anomaly detection and the importance of keeping an eye on costs in Azure. Using Turbo360's cost analyzer module, Mike shows us how to efficiently manage everyday expenses and save money. Mike shares a scenario where he manages a Data Gateway service on Azure within a limited budget. He then explains how changes in resource scheduling led to unexpected cost increases. Using the anomaly detection feature, he identifies the abnormal cost behavior and discusses the significance of promptly addressing such issues.
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By Turbo360
In this video, Michael Stephenson introduces a feature in Turbo360 that allows users to configure customizable settings for Azure rightsizing recommendations. He demonstrates how users can access these settings in the Turbo360 portal and modify rules for rightsizing various resources such as VM scale sets and SQL databases.
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By Turbo360
In this episode, we delve into the relationship between Azure Cost Management and security in cloud computing with FinOps certified practitioner Michael Stephenson and Microsoft MVP for Security Nino Crudele. Learn how security measures impact cloud costs and explore strategies for balancing robust security with cost-effectiveness. Discover the crucial role of governance, policy enforcement, and FinOps in optimizing both cost and security postures.
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By Turbo360
How to Setup Cost Alert Notification in Azure? In this video, Azure MVP - Michael Stephenson explains how users can set up alerts for exceeding cost thresholds within their monitoring setup, specifically focusing on a product called Document360. Michael demonstrates how users can configure email alerts to be notified when a cost threshold is breached, and he walks through the process of receiving and managing these alerts. He also mentions the ability to view incidents and analyze cost data in more detail if necessary.
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By Turbo360
Turbo360 (Formerly Serverless360) is an advanced Cloud Management platform that empowers you with significant Azure Cost savings and Infra Monitoring for complex Azure Environments. This tool has helped customers experience annual savings of up to 30% through advanced cost monitoring, granular analysis, optimization insights, and reduced incident resolution time by 80% through holistic infra monitoring across multiple Azure resources with business context.
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By Turbo360
In this video, Azure MVP Michael Stephenson will walkthrough on how he uses Turbo360 to conduct cost reviews for a SaaS company. And then he explains the process of monitoring costs, analyzing trends, identifying spikes, and optimizing resources using the Turbo360. He also emphasizes the importance of maintaining efficiency and sustainability in cloud spending by regularly reviewing costs. The goal is to identify cost-saving opportunities and ensure accountability within the teams to take action on optimizing resources.
What's New in Turbo360: Network diagrams, Rightsizing recommendations that restrict to the same SKU.
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By Turbo360
The latest updates in Turbo360 bring several notable features and enhancements. Access policies for Service Principals now enable users to define scopes. Network Diagrams in Azure Documenter provide visual representations of network architecture. Cost Analyzer introduces Idle Disks in Rightsizing recommendations for cost optimization. Furthermore, Rightsizing recommendations now offer the ability to restrict to the same SKU family.
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By Turbo360
In this video Azure MVP - Mike introduces a new feature within Turbo360 aimed at simplifying network visualization. The focus lies within the Azure Documenter Module, where users can generate network diagrams effortlessly. By selecting a Service Principal and specifying filters like resource groups and locations, users can configure & customize diagrams, store them internally or externally, and further modify them using draw.io.
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By Turbo360
Shift FinOps Left In this FinOps on Azure episode, Mike (A FinOps certified practitioner) joins Michiel (Azure Cost Optimization Specialist) to discuss the concept of Shift left with FinOps - moving cloud financial operations & cost optimization earlier into the app development lifecycle. Michiel explains why most companies struggle with lack of cloud cost awareness and how to get started shifting FinOps left. He covers selecting a proof of concept team, providing FinOps training, tooling for visibility into costs/budgets, anomaly detection, and optimization techniques.
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By Turbo360
Total Cost of Ownership for enterprise software is the sum of all direct and indirect costs incurred by the software and is a critical part of the ROI calculation. The reality of the cloud support process is that the user will end up paying more money depending upon the severity of the problem. For Instance, the support ticket resolved by 1st or 2nd line support teams would cost less than being resolved by the Architecture team.
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By Turbo360
I am Michael Stephenson, Azure MVP, and Integration Architect. I work as a Technology Consultant for leading enterprises worldwide.
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By Turbo360
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are obviously very popular buzzwords these days. This is for good reason based upon the evolution of these capabilities even within the past few years as major cloud vendors package these powerful capabilities as APIs. A class of APIs that we will explore in this whitepaper is Cognitive Services APIs. By packaging these AI and ML capabilities as APIs, the barrier to entry has dramatically reduced.
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By Turbo360
This eBook will cover various concepts of Azure Functions, its development, deployment, management, and monitoring. Microsoft launched Azure Function early 2016 as a preview, and it became generally available mid-November of 2016.
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By Turbo360
Logic Apps helps you build solutions that integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises by automating tasks and business processes as workflow. Logic Apps is a cloud service in Azure that simplifies how you design and create scalable solutions for app integration, enterprise application integration (EAI), and business-to-business (B2B) communication both in cloud and on-premise.
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By Turbo360
Logic Apps was released in July 2016 for the public and has since then evolved into a leader in the integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) space in two years. Moreover, Logic Apps succeeded Microsoft's first attempt at offering an iPaaS in the Cloud - BizTalk Services. It later received some updates and branded as Microsoft Azure BizTalk Service, MABS for short - a version 2 of BizTalk Services. However, MABS was deprecated, and both the VETER pipelines and the EDI/B2B functionality Microsoft moved to Logic Apps.
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Free up your highly skilled Microsoft Azure team from low valued support tasks. Focus on delivering value to the business that boosts your cloud Return on Investment.
One platform solution for your Azure Serverless Monitoring and Management:
- Business Applications Better Managed: Logically group Azure services from different Azure subscriptions and regions into Composite Applications representing the Business Applications. Represent the Organization hierarchy using Composite Application groups in the explorer view. Enable your team with the real time application status on the dashboard. Manage and monitor the application with the capabilities in Turbo360 crafted to address the challenges in Azure portal. Achieve advanced security on the Composite Applications with Azure Active Directory integration, granular user access policy definition and governance and audit in place.
- Business Activity Monitoring: Enable your support team to better serve your customers with BAM in Turbo360. Track where the message is? Real time hybrid integration solutions can be instrumented with the business process definition to capture necessary data in all stages of the business transaction. View and reprocess stages to restore business. Monitor BAM queries and business processes for any exceptions. Infer business critical information in the upcoming analytics from Turbo360.
- Consolidated Monitoring and Smart Automations: Status monitor ideal for product managers to be aware on the application health. Threshold monitors for DevOps team to be aware of any violation in the orchestration. Data monitor for Architects to measure performance, consumption and much more. Watch monitor to quick detect any failure in the business workflow. Keep the stakeholders informed through their preferred notification channels. Restore business with no manual intervention using threshold monitors powered by Auto correct on entity state. Achieve business critical tasks at ease using automated activities.
Azure Serverless Monitoring and Management made easy!