This Week I Learned - Week #16 2019
This Week I Learned -
* ExpressRoute Direct provides direct connectivity to the Azure global backbone at 100 Gbps. This enables customers who have scenarios such as massive data ingestion to storage, physical isolation, dedicated capacity, and burst capacity to use Microsoft’s global backbone to access Azure regions at tremendous scale.
* Microsoft built ASR internally, and then integrated the InMage technology it acquired in 2014 to now provide DR for VMware, Hyper-V and physical workloads.
* DNS is one of the most efficient mechanisms to divert network traffic because DNS is often global and external to the data center and is insulated from any regional or availability zone (AZ) level failures. One can use a DNS-based failover mechanism and in Azure, two DNS services can accomplish the same in some fashion - Azure DNS (authoritative DNS) and Azure Traffic Manager (DNS-based smart traffic routing).
DNS is one of the most efficient mechanisms to divert network traffic because DNS is often global and external to the data center and is insulated from any regional or availability zone (AZ) level failures. One can use a DNS-based failover mechanism and in Azure, two DNS services can accomplish the same in some fashion - Azure DNS (authoritative DNS) and Azure Traffic Manager (DNS-based smart traffic routing).
* Dedicated hosts allow customers to bring Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with or without Software Assurance. Licenses without Software Assurance cannot be taken to Azure.
* According to IDC, AWS has nearly twice as many Windows Server instances in the cloud as the next largest cloud provider.
* Aurora was the fastest-growing product in AWS's history, and has retained that title for the entirety of the first three and a half years.
* Amazon is the second publicly traded company ever to hit a $1T market cap
* Gartner's key findings on VMware Cloud on AWS:
- VMware Cloud on AWS offers VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as a service, enabling cloud migration with few to no changes in application architectures or operations.
- Clients are unlikely to see overall cost reductions from using VMware Cloud on AWS, but will shift expenses from fixed capital expenditure (capex) to flexible operating expenditure (opex). Choose VMware Cloud on AWS for VMware-based applications when capex reduction (not total cost) is paramount, transformation to cloud-native is too expensive, and future colocation with AWS native workloads is strategic
- VMware Cloud on AWS is more expensive than native AWS for new, highly agile applications.
* After features like automated sample responses to emails, Gmail now reminds if you have to follow up on an email for which you haven't received a reply.
* Sugar serves several purposes in the complex process of winemaking. First, yeast metabolizes sugar into alcohol, making wine alcoholic. The riper the grapes are, the higher sugar content they have, and the more alcohol the wine will eventually contain. If grapes are less ripe, sugar may be added before fermentation so the final product will be more alcoholic. The calorie count in a five ounce serving of wine can vary depending on whether it’s red or white, dry or sweet, and low or high proof. As alcohol contains close to twice as many carbohydrates as sugar, wines that are described as heavier or full-bodied tend to be more caloric - Go Ask Alice!
* ExpressRoute Direct provides direct connectivity to the Azure global backbone at 100 Gbps. This enables customers who have scenarios such as massive data ingestion to storage, physical isolation, dedicated capacity, and burst capacity to use Microsoft’s global backbone to access Azure regions at tremendous scale.
* Microsoft built ASR internally, and then integrated the InMage technology it acquired in 2014 to now provide DR for VMware, Hyper-V and physical workloads.
* DNS is one of the most efficient mechanisms to divert network traffic because DNS is often global and external to the data center and is insulated from any regional or availability zone (AZ) level failures. One can use a DNS-based failover mechanism and in Azure, two DNS services can accomplish the same in some fashion - Azure DNS (authoritative DNS) and Azure Traffic Manager (DNS-based smart traffic routing).
DNS is one of the most efficient mechanisms to divert network traffic because DNS is often global and external to the data center and is insulated from any regional or availability zone (AZ) level failures. One can use a DNS-based failover mechanism and in Azure, two DNS services can accomplish the same in some fashion - Azure DNS (authoritative DNS) and Azure Traffic Manager (DNS-based smart traffic routing).
* Dedicated hosts allow customers to bring Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with or without Software Assurance. Licenses without Software Assurance cannot be taken to Azure.
* According to IDC, AWS has nearly twice as many Windows Server instances in the cloud as the next largest cloud provider.
* Aurora was the fastest-growing product in AWS's history, and has retained that title for the entirety of the first three and a half years.
* Amazon is the second publicly traded company ever to hit a $1T market cap
* Gartner's key findings on VMware Cloud on AWS:
- VMware Cloud on AWS offers VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as a service, enabling cloud migration with few to no changes in application architectures or operations.
- Clients are unlikely to see overall cost reductions from using VMware Cloud on AWS, but will shift expenses from fixed capital expenditure (capex) to flexible operating expenditure (opex). Choose VMware Cloud on AWS for VMware-based applications when capex reduction (not total cost) is paramount, transformation to cloud-native is too expensive, and future colocation with AWS native workloads is strategic
- VMware Cloud on AWS is more expensive than native AWS for new, highly agile applications.
* After features like automated sample responses to emails, Gmail now reminds if you have to follow up on an email for which you haven't received a reply.
* Sugar serves several purposes in the complex process of winemaking. First, yeast metabolizes sugar into alcohol, making wine alcoholic. The riper the grapes are, the higher sugar content they have, and the more alcohol the wine will eventually contain. If grapes are less ripe, sugar may be added before fermentation so the final product will be more alcoholic. The calorie count in a five ounce serving of wine can vary depending on whether it’s red or white, dry or sweet, and low or high proof. As alcohol contains close to twice as many carbohydrates as sugar, wines that are described as heavier or full-bodied tend to be more caloric - Go Ask Alice!
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