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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – July 2019 Edition

It may be the middle of Summer but there is a lot going on with Azure, this is what you need to know about Azure for the month of July.

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Back Up and Restore Azure Premium Storage VMs

After lots of feedback, Microsoft Azure has added public preview support for backing up and restoring virtual machines that use Premium Storage. This article will explain what that means for you. Background Most people who are new to cloud or hosting assume that any hosted virtual machine will be backed up by default and for…

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Move an Azure VM from Standard to Premium Storage

In this article Aidan will show you how to migrate the data disks of an Azure virtual machine (in Azure Resource Manager or ARM) from a Standard Storage (HDD-based) account to a Premium Storage (SSD-based) storage account to improve performance (more IOPS and less latency).

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Results of Aggregating Azure Premium Disks

See how performance improves when you add additional data disks based on Premium Storage to an Azure virtual machine.

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Using The Biggest Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure’s Cloud

Aidan Finn plays with the biggest virtual machine in Microsoft Azure, the GS5, and explains the cost and performance implications for using it.

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50,000 IOPS with an Azure VM: Is It Possible?

Aidan Finn tests whether it’s possible to achieve 50,000 IOPS with a Microsoft Azure VM.

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Create an Azure Premium Storage Account

Aidan Finn shows us how to create an Azure Premium Storage Account, along with steps for deploying necessary storage for virtual machines.

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What is Azure Premium Storage?

Learn all about Azure Premium Storage, along with how this shared-SSD flash storage behaves with IaaS virtual machines.

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