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Representation of the collaboration process used by SUSE and Microsoft to innovate, test and release support for high availability solutions for SAP.

High availability solutions on Microsoft Azure by SLES for SAP Applications

This post was co-authored with Sherry Yu, Director of SAP Success Architect, SUSE. In today’s business world, service availability and reliability are key to a successful digital transformation. Extensive downtime not only costs a business revenue and productivity, but may ... continue reading
Representation of the collaboration process used by SUSE and Microsoft to innovate, test and release support for high availability solutions for SAP.

High availability solutions on Microsoft Azure by SLES for SAP Applications

This post was co-authored with Sherry Yu, Director of SAP Success Architect, SUSE. In today’s business world, service availability and reliability are key to a successful digital transformation. Extensive downtime not only costs a business revenue and productivity, but may ... continue reading
A column chart comparing Google BigQuery, Snowflake, and Azure Data Explorer query execution times. The measurement is the sum of average query runs for all 19 queries by 50 concurrent users. The chart shows the following measurements: Google BigQuery 1159.15 Seconds, Snowflake 1238.47 seconds, and Azure Data Explorer 54.52 seconds.

Azure Data Explorer: Log and telemetry analytics benchmark

Azure Data Explorer (ADX), a component of Azure Synapse Analytics, is a highly scalable analytics service optimized for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. It provides users with an interactive query experience that unlocks insights from the ocean of ever-growing log ... continue reading
Planning the Monitoring of my hybrid environment.

Planning the Monitoring of my hybrid environment.

Hello folks, By now you may have read that I’ve rebuilt my demo environment to look like what a typical hybrid environment would look like. I did it slowly without having to rip and replace everything in my on-prem environment ... continue reading
PsRule: Introduction to Infrastructure As Code (IAC) Testing

PsRule: Introduction to Infrastructure As Code (IAC) Testing

Introduction One of the fundamental ideas of DevOps is to combine the best practices from the infrastructure and development worlds, to learn from each other. This means applying the concept of testing to our Infrastructure As Code (Bicep, Arm, etc) ... continue reading
System architecture for mitigating impact of ransomware. Healthy servers receive trusted beacons from the cloud. An attack on near and far edge servers causes the cloud to stop issuing trusted beacons. In their absence, servers automatically reimage themselves kicking ransomware off the platform.

Security for next generation telecommunication networks

Almost two years ago, the National Defense Science Board invited me to participate in the Summer Study 2020 Panel, “Protecting the Global Information Infrastructure.” They requested that I brief them on the evolution of the global communications infrastructure connecting all ... continue reading
Securely Manage my On-prem Server Using Cloud services.

Securely Manage my On-prem Server Using Cloud services.

Hello folks, Lately, I had to replace my home network’s edge devicefirewall with one that would allow me to connect to my Azure cloud environment using a site-to-site VPN. I set up an Azure Bastion host to enable remote access ... continue reading
Azure Arc is a set of technologies from Microsoft that is a bridge that extends the Azure platform so customers can build applications and services with the flexibility to run across datacenters, edge, and multicloud environments.

Discover how you can innovate anywhere with Azure Arc

Welcome to Azure Hybrid, Multicloud, and Edge Day—please join us for the digital event. Today, we’re sharing how Azure Arc extends Azure platform capabilities to datacenters, edge, and multicloud environments through an impactful, 90-minute lineup of keynotes, breakouts, and technical ... continue reading
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A Light Overview of Microsoft Security Products

Hi, Alan here today to lightly cover something I have been asked by customers in regard to Microsoft’s security products....and that is “what defender products does Microsoft have and what are they used for?”. Well, it’s a good question, so ... continue reading
SUSECON Digital 2022

SUSECON 2022: Powering Business Critical Linux workloads on Azure

Since 2009, Microsoft and SUSE have partnered to provide Azure-optimized solutions for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). SLES for SAP Applications is the leading platform for SAP solutions on Linux, with over 90 percent of SAP HANA deployments and 70 ... continue reading