Blog Category: Technical Reviews

Agility and control. Diametrically opposing forces present in almost every organisation in the world. Business leaders keen to innovate and disrupt the markets they operate in. Technical and IT leaders worried about security, governance, and availability. Both valid behaviours and concerns. Both totally incompatible with one another. Until now. Ever since the first commercial emergence … Read more

As organizations accelerate their move to the cloud by eliminating costly hardware in their on-premises datacenters by saving costs and improving agility in the cloud. It brings the challenge of managing costs and optimizing their cloud spend. Enterprises who use public cloud often feel their cloud bills are spiraling out of control. Research has shown … Read more

Misconception: “My company isn’t a software company. We just write software to support the business, so we don’t care about going faster.” While your company might not be a software company — or a company that sells software in its product line, you can still largely benefit from DevOps. DevOps is all about efficiency in … Read more

In our recent webinar “Controlling Your Azure Environment: Governance for the Modern Enterprise” we touched on the five disciplines of cloud governance from Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework. This blog post is the third in the “The Five Disciplines of Cloud Governance” five-part series expanding on those concepts. If you missed the first post in the series around … Read more

In utilizing code to perform Azure deployments, a few lessons have been learned, regardless of the language or the tools being utilized. Process – Use Azure DevOps to track tasks, commit code (frequently) and structure complex multi-step deployments.  Start putting good habits in place early! Scale – Not all simple templates are able to be … Read more

New Signature has recently been featured in a number of Microsoft’s videos surrounding data center modernization, and we want to share our knowledge with you. What is data center modernization? It’s the wise decision to migrate your storage workloads, all your company’s data, to the cloud. Doing this helps your organization achieve more quickly and unlocks a competitive … Read more

Microsoft Azure is wonderful for Windows, with numerous links built within Windows to ensure Windows and Azure work with each other.  Companies enjoy the integration between Windows and Azure, with every Azure service being compatible with Windows.  But most companies do not use Windows exclusively, with Linux being a key component within the data center.  … Read more

Imagine if all of your VM builds and configurations were predictable and consistent. Imagine that updating the configuration of your SharePoint farm could be executed reliably from one place and applied to all 10 servers in the farm. Imagine if the specifics of your build and configurations were executed from text rather than point and … Read more

Digital Differentiation – noun; the art of applying digital transformation to compete and win in your market. Digital transformation. It’s such a wonderful, commonly used phrase which can actually mean anything to anyone and for which everyone has a different interpretation.  The conversation around digital transformation and the debate about how best to achieve it … Read more

A common misconception about consuming Azure public cloud services is that Microsoft is taking care of all security aspects. Although this is partially true, as a consumer of Azure public cloud services, you are responsible for some of the security controls. The number and areas of security controls you are responsible for depends on which … Read more

When disaster strikes, your business can face downtime. And downtime costs money. For this, Microsoft offers DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) to provide for back up response when tragedy strikes. But beyond individual instances of tragedy lie a whole slew of potential pitfalls that may cause downtime. You see, acting as an umbrella to … Read more

When you make wise decisions, there is never just one factor involved. In fact, that is arguably a way in which to be considerably unwise. If you choose to buy a house solely on price, you may be living in a very outdated house with a leaking roof. If you choose to buy a house … Read more

Backup is always that unsung hero. It’s there in the background, and no one notices it, that is until it’s needed. And with the ever-growing volume of data, backing up becomes more and more of a challenge. Sure, storage companies continue to push the envelope on hard drive sizes, now reaching upwards of 10+ TB … Read more

Digital Business Transformation is now in full swing across North America and Europe, and much of it is driven by cloud strategies. In its Worldwide Cloud 2017 Predictions, market research firm IDC states that “IT buyers are shifting steadily toward cloud-first strategies, and nearly all are reconsidering their IT best practices to embrace hybrid and … Read more

I’m going to start this article by explaining what Eventual Consistency is, how it compares to Transactional Consistency, and when we should consider designing a solution with this approach. Next, we’re going to look at Domain Events, see what their role is in relation to eventual consistency and also how we can identify them in … Read more

I spend a lot of time these days speaking with people about embracing cloud technologies; and conversations quickly turn to the topics surrounding cloud security, cloud trust, and generally protecting assets in the Cloud. These are not necessarily simple conversations to have, because they generally involve thinking about things differently.  As you move from infrastructure … Read more