App Modernization

Dynamic Lineage Extraction from Azure SQL Database Now in Purview

Microsoft’s Azure Purview service can now perform dynamic lineage extraction from Azure SQL Databases. Lineage data is critical for identifying root cause analysis, data quality training, impact analysis, and protecting and managing data. Dynamic analysis captures runtime metadata, processes, individuals, and apps accessing data, and where access happened. This dynamic lineage capability is now in …

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Spark 3.0 Support Arrives for SQL Server and Azure SQL Database

Announcement #5 in What’s New From Microsoft in February 2021 Every month Microsoft announces hundreds of new features, capabilities, and services across the Microsoft cloud platforms – Azure, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365. We boil it down to what is most important and share them via our monthly newsletter.  Here is #5 for February of …

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Modernize Your IT with Azure

Customer Story: Chevron’s Azure Migration Journey Chevron has always viewed technology as a key differentiator of their company. So, when aging IT infrastructure threatened to compromise security, speed, and data management, the company devised a plan to lift and shift 6,000 applications to a single platform. Even though they realized that they could significantly cut costs by migrating applications to the cloud, they knew it wasn’t going to be easy. So, they focused their efforts …

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Cloud Deployment Options for an Application

A Simple Example of Deploying a WordPress Site Via PaaS, Containers, IaaS, and SaaS Clients frequently ask what cloud services they should use for different applications.  Lift and shift to IaaS, true modernization with containers and PaaS, or reach for the appealing benefits of FaaS or SaaS?  Unfortunately the optimal path and destination is not always …

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Modernization Enables Transformation

Application modernization is about transformation.  Once your application is part of a larger cloud infrastructure, you now can leverage and consume a multitude of services that would be otherwise difficult and costly to implement.  Examples include: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Location Services Vision & translation services Bots We often hear clients say that software …

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