by XTIVIA | Mar 24, 2020 | Azure, Blog, Cloud, Microsoft
Microsoft states, “Azure Arc for servers allows you to manage machines which are outside of Azure. When a non-Azure machine is connected to Azure, it becomes a Connected Machine and is treated as a resource in Azure. Each Connected Machine has a Resource...
by XTIVIA | Dec 17, 2019 | Azure, Blog, Cloud, Microsoft
Backups have always been a crucial asset in today’s continuous battles to control and protect our data. Every day, your data protection is being challenged continuously by malicious malware and viruses to hold your data hostage and have you pay fees to get it...
by XTIVIA | Dec 13, 2019 | Azure, Blog
Azure Backup Service has risen from just being a simple flat file backup solution to an all in one sandbox for all your backup service needs. From BMR (Bare Metal Restore) to SQL databases, Azure Backup now gives you one centralized location to manage your data and...
by XTIVIA | Jun 19, 2019 | Blog, Cloud
Azure Container Service (ACS) provides a way to simplify the creation, configuration, and management of a cluster of virtual machines that are preconfigured to run containerized applications. Using an optimized configuration of popular open-source scheduling and...
by Kathleen Long | Jun 11, 2019 | Blog, Cloud, Data Management, Databases
SQL Server 2008\2008 R2’s retirement is inching closer; now is the best time to weigh your options and decide on the next course of action. Do you migrate your SQL Server database to an Azure environment or do you keep an on-premise system and upgrade to SQL...
by XTIVIA | Oct 30, 2018 | Blog, Digital Experience
Microsoft Azure provides an extremely quick and easy platform to deploy API Apps without the end user having to worry about the infrastructure or the deployment process. This is made even simpler when using Azure DevOps. In a customer environment hosted in Azure,...
by Kathleen Long | Jul 5, 2018 | Azure, Blog, Databases
Azure SQL has introduced the ability to set firewall rules at the database level. A database firewall is different than a server firewall which can be configured via the Azure Portal. The database firewall gives you the ability to not only limit connections at the...
by XTIVIA | Apr 5, 2018 | Azure, Blog
1. Sign Up for Azure Visit https://signup.azure.com and follow the steps to sign up for Azure. Requirements Microsoft Account Mobile Phone Credit Card 2. Visit the Microsoft Azure Portal Once completed with signing up head on over to the portal Visit:...
by XTIVIA | Oct 5, 2015 | Applications, Blog, Cloud, Enterprise Infrastructure, Enterprise Java, Portals
A key step for setting up a reliable Liferay environment is to configure Liferay clustering. Liferay clustering can be achieved in multiple ways. Some of the supported clustering methods are UDP Multicast, UDP Unicast and TCP Unicast. While Multicast is...
by XTIVIA | Oct 2, 2015 | Blog, Cloud, Databases, Enterprise Infrastructure, Enterprise Java, Portals
Microsoft recently updated the Azure SQL database to only allow encrypted communication. Now communication between Azure SQL Database and your application requires encryption (SSL) at all times. If your client application does not validate certificates upon...
