Oracle Database backup in Azure – Strategy for Low Cost and Best Storage Solution for storing the backups in Azure.

Picture Credit: Royalty free photos from pexels.com I am sure many of you are already planning or have already moved oracle databases to Azure VM. In any IT infrastructure landscape Oracle workload migration to public cloud is one of the most difficult task and needed to be planned well in advance. If your organisation is

Spectra and Meltdown patching has ended in most of the Azure Regions – Microsoft has done express patching to protect the customers.

Last two weeks in most of the organizations the windows team must be busy in applying patches to hundreds of Servers after the information of the serious design flaw with Intel, ARM and AMD based chips that allowed programs to read the contents and layout of a computers protected kernel. Patches has been applied to

Microsoft is upgrading the host OS of Azure App Service and Azure Functions to Windows Server 2016

Microsoft is planning to upgrade App Service and Functions infrastructure to Windows Server 2016. This updates paves the way to allow the HTTP/2 protocol for App Service and Functions. For HTTP/2 support they will send communications when it will be available worldwide. The update will began on Monday, December 4, 2017, and continue through January

Dealing with Azure Storage Account – know how to secure them in all possible ways

Although this is a technical blog but I don’t able to stop myself citing an incident which I have witnessed recently which is somehow related to the technical aspect of this post. Picture Credit: Royalty free photos from pexels.com Last September there was a case of fraudulent transaction reported by one of my very close