Application Security Groups to simplify your Azure VMs network security Application Security Groups helps to manage the security of the Azure Virtual Machines by grouping them according the applications that runs on them. It is a feature that allows the application-centric use of Network Security Groups. An example is always the best way to better understand a feature. So let’s say that in a Subnet we have some Web Servers and some Database Servers. The access rules of the Subnet’s Network Secu
MICROSOFT AZURE BLOG: WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? August 10, 2018 Pantelis Apostolidis Azure Leave a comment
This post is reposted from the Microsoft Azure Blog : What is Artificial Intelligence? <azure.microsoft.com/blog/what-is-artificial-intelligence/> Aug 9th 2018, 12:00, by Theo van Kraay It has been said that Artificial Intelligence will define the next generation of software solutions. If you are even remotely involved with technology, you will almost certainly have heard
Connect two or more Azure Virtual Networks using one VPN Gateway Peering is a feature that allows to connect two or more virtual networks and act as one bigger network. At this post we will see how we can connect two Azure Virtual Networks, using peering and access the whole network using one VPN Gateway. We can connect Virtual Networks despite if they are in the same Subscription or not. I have created a diagram to help understand the topology.
We have a Virtual Network with Site-2-Site VPN w
Azure Blob Storage… Recycle Bin!!!!!!! Remember all that red alerts when comes to deleting blobs? Ah, forget them! Microsoft Azure brought the Windows Recycle Bin to Azure and named it Soft delete. The soft delete feature basically is similar to the Windows recycle bin. Deleting a file from the Windows explorer, the Operating System instead of actually removing the file it moves it to the recycle bin. The file stays there and it can be undeleted at any time. The soft delete feature in Microsoft
Azure Storage | Static Web Site Το Microsoft Azure ανακοίνωσε την δυνατότητα να φιλοξενεί στατικές ιστοσελίδες απευθείας στο Blob Storage, με το κόστος του Blob Storage! Τι σημαίνει αυτό? Για 1 GB χώρο και 100000 views το κόστος είναι περίπου 0,05 ευρώ το μήνα! Στις στατικές ιστοσελίδες μπορούμε επίσης εκτός από στατικό περιεχόμενο να έχουμε και CLient Side Scripting οπως JavaScript αλλά όχι Server Side Scripting. Επίσης μπορούμε να δώσουμε και μια Custom σελίδα που θα γυρίζει αντί για 404. Μπορ
<h1 class="entry-title h1">Global Azure Bootcamp 2018 – Athens</h1> <p>This year I am very excited of being part of the organizers team of Global Azure Bootcamp 2018, Athens.</p> <p>This is a photo at the end of the event with all the Organizers, Speakers and Volunteers:</p> <p><img src="https://azureheadsassets.blob.core.windows.net/assets/2018/04/gab-126-990x526.jpg"/></p> <p>The day before the vent, the organizers, Kostas Pantos, Pa
Secure your Azure SQL locally inside your vnet using service endpoints For many companies, a throwback of using Azure SQL was the Public Access. After the latest Azure updates you can use the service endpoints to Secure your Azure SQL locally inside your vnet! For the time, the feature is available only at the West Central US, West US 2, and East US regions but soon more will follow. So, lets secure your Azure SQL locally inside your vnet! At the VNET creation blade, select the Microsoft.Sql s
Ασφαλίστε την MySQL και την PostgreSQL με τη χρήση Service Endpoints Σε προηγούμενο post, Ασφάλισε την Azure SQL Database μέσα σε ένα VNET χρησιμοποιώντας service endpoints, είδαμε πως μπορούμε να χρησιμοποιήσουμε τα Service Endpoints του Azure Virtual Network για να ασφαλίσουμε μια Azure SQL για πρόσβαση μόνο από εσωτερικό δίκτυο.
Σήμερα, το Microsoft Azure, ανακοίνωσε την γενική διαθεσιμότητα του Service Endpoints για MySQL και PostgreSQL. Αυτό δίνει την δυνατότητα να κόψουμε όλη την Publ
Global AI Bootcamp, Athens 2019
December 14, 2019 we proudly carried out the Global AI Bootcamp, Athens 2019! IT was a day full of AI and Microsoft Azure. The Global AI Bootcamp is a free one-day event organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure.
After all preparations with the assistance of Stoiximan.gr, our sponsor, the day begun at Athinais Cultural Center, at Athens, Greece. From early morning our sponsor was there wi
Azure Update Management Have you checked the update management system for your Azure and On-Premises server that supports both Windows and Linux operating systems? And it is completely free! Please find the full list of supported operating systems and prerequisites here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/operations-management-suite/oms-solution-update-management#prerequisites. Lets get started. The easiest way is to start from an Azure VM. Go to the VMs blade and find “Update management”.
Get early access to large disks support of Azure Backup & more Azure Backup’s 1TB limitation at last is over! Now you can backup VMs with disk sizes up to 4TB(4095GB), both managed and unmanaged. Also has improvements on backup and recovery performance that you can find here. Starting today login to the Portal, go to your Recovery Services vault and you will a notification saying “Support for >1TB disk VMs and improvements to backup and restore speed ->” Click the notification and the
Azure App Service, get data from on-premises databases securely There are many scenarios where we want to have the Web Application on the Cloud but on the other hand, due to various limitations, the database stays on-premises. Azure has a service, called Azure Hybrid Connections, that allows the Web App to connect to on-premises databases, using internal IP address or the database server host name, without a complex VPN setup. The Connection diagram I have tested the connection with Microsoft S
Spin up Azure HDInsight clusters on demand
This is my Global AI Bootcamp, Athens 2019 Presentation with title:
Spin up HDInsight clusters on demand for ETL, IoT, Data Science & Machine Learning
At my presentation I explained with a hands-on demo, how to use Azure Data Factory to spin up on-demand Azure HDInsight clusters to make a process and automatically delete them once they provide the result.
Download the PowerPoint Presentation: download link
And watch the Demo:
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Azure Portal | Virtual Machines bulk actions Azure Portal is a great GUI tool to administer all your Azure Resources and it continues evolving. Here is a very useful Tip. Did you know that you can manage Virtual Machines in bulk using the Azure Portal VIrtual Machines section? We have virtual machines bulk actions! Not only we can Assign Tags, Start, Restart, Stop and Delete Virtual Machines in bulk but also configure Change Tracking, Inventory and Update Management!! Filter out the Virtual Mac
Azure Backup | Enable backup alert notifications Azure Backup generates alerts for all backup events, such as unsuccessful backups. A new option is to create backup alert notifications so Azure Backup will alert you firing an email when an alert is generated. To enable the backup alert notifications, navigate to the “Backup Alerts” section of the “recovery Services vault” and click the “Configure notifications” There switch the Email notification to On to enable the alerts. Enter one or more re
Για πολλούς, ένα πρόβλημα στο να χρησιμοποιήσουν την Azure SQL, είναι η δημόσια πρόσβαση. Μετά τα τελευταία Azure updates μπορούμε να χρησιμοποιήσουμε τα service endpoints ώστε να ασφαλίσουμε την Azure SQL μέσα σε ένα VNET. Ας ξεκινήσουμε λοιπόν να βάλουμε την Azure SQL μέσα σε ένα VNET. Ανοίγουμε το Azure Portal και ξεκινάμε να δημιουργήσουμε ένα VNET. Στο τέλος της σελίδας δημιουργίας έχει προστεθεί μια νέα επιλογή που λέγετε service endpoints. Το ενεργοποιούμε και επιλέγουμε το Microsoft.Sql.
Free e-book: Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide Microsoft Azure is giving free a Strategy and Implementation guide for Azure. This e-book provides guidance, architecture and advises to implement and integrate cloud technologies. This guide is directed to system administrators, cloud architects and project managers. It has for chapters, the Governance, the Architecture, the Application development and operations and the Service management. It will help you for starting with Azure or just doi
