Category: Azure
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Creating Custom Azure Guest Configuration Policies for Windows
For obvious reasons, it is desirable for an organisation’s cloud estate to be kept secure. Azure Policy is a tool that offers a great level of governance in this regard. While built-in security Policies/Initiatives do exist, it’s often desirable or even necessary to use an approach more tailored to a specific set of requirements. The…
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Azure IO Testing
Azure IO Testing One of the first things we do here at VLDB when we have a yearning to set up a database on a cloud platform is to develop an understanding of disk input-output (IO) performance. For databases in particular, we are specifically interested in random read performance. A high random read throughput figure…