Steve Hughes

What is Azure Monitor_

Azure, Azure Every Day, Azure Monitor

Understanding Azure Monitor

Monitoring your subscriptions and resources is an important part of using Azure. If you’re starting out or working with [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes August 2, 2018

Azure Marketplace and Some Key Things to Know About It

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Azure Marketplace and Some Key Things to Know About It

Are you familiar with the Azure Marketplace? As Azure continues to expand throughout the world in terms of deployment, more [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes July 27, 2018

Azure, Azure Every Day

Go Green with Blue Using Azure

Is your company working on ways to become more environmentally friendly? Taking care of the environment is an important [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes June 22, 2018

Azure Relational Database Services

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Azure Relational Database Services

Today I’d like to talk about the Azure Relational Data Services Platform. This is an important foundational component for [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes June 18, 2018

Introducing Azure Database for MySQL (1)

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Introducing Azure Database for MySQL

Microsoft recently released their Platform as a Service (PaaS) option for MySQL, called Azure Database for MySQL. Yes, MySQL [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes June 14, 2018

Intro to Azure Database for PostgreSQL

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Intro to Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Lately I’ve been doing some work around open source databases on Azure. Today I’d like to tell you about PostgreSQL on Azure [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes June 11, 2018

Azure IP Advantage

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Azure IP Advantage

In today’s Azure Every Day post, I’d like to talk about something a little different from our normal posts, and that is [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes June 8, 2018

Introducing Azure Maps

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Introducing Azure Maps

Do you need to include mapping in your applications? If you’re like us and do a lot of work with Power BI and other [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes June 6, 2018

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Azure, Azure Every Day, Cosmos DB

Cosmos DB: Request Units

In this post about Cosmos DB, I’d like to dive into what Requests Units are and what it means to work with them in Cosmos. A [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes May 31, 2018

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Azure, Azure Every Day, Cosmos DB

Cosmos DB: Consistency Levels

To continue with my topic of Cosmos DB this week, today I’ll discuss the data consistency models that are supported within [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes May 30, 2018

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Azure, Azure Every Day, Cosmos DB

Cosmos DB - Multi Model Database

Today I’d like to walk through the multi model database portion of Cosmos DB and explain what multi model means to you. [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes May 29, 2018

Azure-GB

Azure, Azure SQL DB, Azure Every Day, Cosmos DB

Global Databases: Cosmos DB vs Azure SQL Database

Do you need the ability of global distribution of your data and wonder which database is the best for this? Today, I’d like [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes May 28, 2018

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Azure, Azure Every Day, Azure Integration Services

Azure Integration with Flow

Today I’m talking more about integration with flow within Azure. Flow is focused around business power users who need to [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes May 22, 2018

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Azure, Azure Every Day, Azure Integration Services

Azure Integration Options and Overview

Today I’d like to talk about Azure Integration Services that you can leverage within the platform. Integration Services [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes May 21, 2018

Azure Cognitive Services - Speech

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Azure Cognitive Services - Speech

This week in my Azure Every Day posts, I’ve been focusing on Azure Cognitive Services and what these features can add to [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes May 3, 2018

Azure Cognitive Services - Knowledge APIs

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Azure Cognitive Services - Knowledge APIs

This week’s Azure Every Day posts are focused on the different APIs available within Azure Cognitive Services. Today I’ll [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes May 1, 2018

Azure Cognitive Services - Search APIs

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Azure Cognitive Services - Search APIs

Throughout this week’s Azure Every Day blog posts, I’ll focus on different APIs available with Azure Cognitive Services. [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes April 30, 2018

Why Customers Are Looking to Azure

Azure, Disaster Recovery, Azure Every Day

Why Customers Are Looking to Azure

As a principal consultant with Pragmatic Works, I have many conversations with customers about moving to Azure. As a [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes April 25, 2018

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Azure, Azure Every Day, Azure Bot Service

4 Usage Scenarios for Bots

So, what do you really know about bots or how they can help your organization? You may be thinking, Pragmatic Works is all [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes April 18, 2018

A Quick Intro to DevOps in Azure

Azure, Azure Every Day, Azure DevOps

A Quick Intro to DevOps in Azure

Today, I’d like to discuss DevOps in Azure and tell you why you should consider using DevOps when you start moving to Azure. [...]

Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes April 16, 2018

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