How to put Microsoft Azure to work for you?

 

1. Enhance and Implement Backup and Disaster Recovery

Azure is a backup and disaster recovery dream tool. Why? Because of its flexibility, advanced site recovery, and built-in integration.

As a cloud-based solution, Azure is innately flexible – it can back up your data in almost any language, on any OS, and from any location. Plus, you define the frequency and extent of your backup schedule (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.).

Tape backup has a time and place, but it has limited abilities as a stand-alone backup and disaster recovery solution. Azure site recovery can enhance your tape backup with offsite replication, minimal onsite maintenance, up to ninety-nine years of data retention, minimal or no capital investment, and minimal operational costs. Microsoft Azure backup stores three copies of your data in three different locations in the data center, and then another three copies in a remote Azure data center, so you never have to worry about losing data.

If you’re in a Windows virtual environment, Azure’s built-in integration for additional backup will be a quick and painless solution. Azure site recovery integrates with System Center and HyperV architectures, creating a robust and seamless cohesion between Azure, System Center, and HyperV.

2. Host and Develop Web and Mobile Apps

Whether you’re looking for a platform for hosting, developing, or managing a web or mobile app, Azure makes those apps autonomous and adaptive with patch management, AutoScale, and integration for on-premise apps.

With Automatic patch management for your virtual machines, you can spend less time managing your infrastructure and focus on improving your apps. Azure also comes with continuous deployment support, which allows you to streamline ongoing code updates.

AutoScale is a feature built into Azure Web Apps that adjusts your resources automatically based on customer web traffic so you have the resources you need when traffic is high, and save money when you’re not in peak times.

Through Azure, you can seamlessly link your web app to an on-premise app. Connecting apps in both locations lets both employees and partners securely access resources inside your firewall—resources that would otherwise be difficult to access externally.

Call  +1-856-514-8666 for help and support.

Resolve errors for storage account names

Symptom

If your storage account name includes prohibited characters, you receive an error like:

Code=AccountNameInvalid

Message=S!torageckrexph7isnoc is not a valid storage account name. Storage account name must be

between 3 and 24 characters in length and use numbers and lower-case letters only.

For storage accounts, you must provide a name for the resource that is unique across Azure. If you do not provide a unique name, you receive an error like:

Code=StorageAccountAlreadyTaken

Message=The storage account named mystorage is already taken.

If you deploy a storage account with the same name as an existing storage account in your subscription, but provide a different location, you receive an error indicating the storage account already exists in a different location. Either delete the existing storage account, or provide the same location as the existing storage account.

Cause

Storage account names must be between 3 and 24 characters in length and use numbers and lower-case letters only. The name must be unique Microsoft Azure.

Solution

Make sure the storage account name is unique. You can create a unique name by concatenating your naming convention with the result of the uniqueString function.

"name": "[concat('storage', uniqueString(resourceGroup().id))]",

"type": "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts",

Make sure your storage account name does not exceed 24 characters. The uniqueString function returns 13 characters. If you concatenate a prefix or postfix to the uniqueString result, provide a value that is 11 characters or less.

"parameters": {

  "storageNamePrefix": {

    "type": "string",

    "maxLength": 11,

    "defaultValue": "storage",

    "metadata": {

    "description": "The value to use for starting the storage account name."

    }

  }

}

Make sure your storage account name does not include any upper-case letters or special character

Call  +1-856-514-8666 for help and support.