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Plan migration of physical servers using Azure Migrate

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Previously, Azure Migrate: Server Assessment only supported VMware and Hyper-V virtual machine assessments for migration to Azure. At Ignite 2019, we added physical server support for assessment features like Azure suitability analysis, migration cost planning, performance-based rightsizing, and application dependency analysis. You can now plan at-scale, assessing up to 35K physical servers in one Azure Migrate project. If you use VMware or Hyper-V as well, you can discover and assess both physical and virtual servers in the same project. You can create groups of servers, assess by group and refine the groups further using application dependency information. While this feature is in preview, the preview is covered by customer support and can be used for production workloads. Let us look at how the assessment helps you plan migration. Azure suitability analysis The assessment checks Azure support for each server discovered and determines whether the server can be migrated as-is to Azure. If incompatibilities are found, remediation guidance is automatically provided. You can customize your assessment by changing its properties, and recomputing the assessment. Among other customizations, you can choose a virtual machine series of your choice and specify the uptime of the workloads you will run in Azure. Cost estimation and sizing Assessment also provides detailed cost estimates. Performance-based rightsizing assessments can be used to optimize on cost; the performance data of your on-premise server is used to recommend a suitable Azure Virtual Machine and disk SKU. This helps to optimize on cost and right-size as you migrate servers that might be over-provisioned in your on-premise data center. You can apply subscription offers and Reserved Instance pricing on the cost estimates. Dependency analysis Once you have established cost estimates and migration readiness, you can plan your migration phases. Using the dependency analysis feature, you can understand which workloads are interdependent and need to be migrated together. This also helps ensure you do not leave critical elements behind on-premise. You can visualize the dependencies in a map or extract the dependency data in a tabular format. You can divide your servers into groups and refine the groups for migration by reviewing the dependencies. Assess your physical servers in four simple steps Create an Azure Migrate project and add the Server Assessment solution to the project. Set up the Azure Migrate appliance and start discovery of your server. To set up discovery, the server names or IP addresses are required. Each appliance supports discovery of 250 servers. You can set up more than one appliance if required. Once you have successfully set up discovery, create assessments and review the assessment reports. Use the application dependency analysis features to create and refine server groups to phase your migration. When you are ready to migrate the servers to Azure, you can use Server Migration to carry out the migration, get in touch with us our team will help you.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Reimagining Healthcare with Azure IoT

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Providers, payors, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences companies are leading the next wave of healthcare innovation by utilizing connected devices. From continuous patient monitoring, to optimizing operations for manufacturers and cold-chain supply tracking for the pharmaceutical industry, the healthcare industry has embraced IoT technology to improve patient outcomes and operations. In our latest IoT Signals for Healthcare research, we spoke with over 150 health organizations about the role that IoT will play in helping them deliver better health outcomes in the years to come. Across the ecosystem, 85 percent see IoT as “critical” to their success, with 78 percent planning to increase their investment in IoT technologies over the next few years. Real-time data from connected devices and sensors provides benefits across the health ecosystem, from manufacturers and pharmaceuticals to health providers and patients. For health providers, IoT unlocks efficiencies for clinical staff and equipment: Reduces human error. Ensures regulatory compliance when exchanging patient health data across systems. Coordinates the productivity of medical professionals across clinical facilities. For manufacturers, IoT creates new digital feedback loops connecting their employees, facilities, products, and end customers. Real-time data can help: Reduce costly downtime with predictive maintenance. Improve sustainable practices by reducing waste and ensuring worker safety. Contribute to improved product quality and quantity. For the pharmaceutical industry, IoT provides greater traceability for inventory along a supply chain: Improved visibility into environmental conditions. Reduced costly inventory spoilage. Increased control against theft or counterfeiting. For end patients, IoT can improve health outcomes with continuous patient monitoring: Reduces the need for unnecessary readmissions. Improves treatment success rates by providing continuous data to care professionals. Personalizes care based on patient needs. In this blog, we’ll cover how our portfolio can support different IoT solution needs for software developers, hardware developers, and healthcare customers. Building healthcare IoT solutions with Azure IoT As Microsoft and its global partners continue to build solutions that empower healthcare organizations around the world, a key question continues to face IoT decision makers: whether to build a solution from scratch or buy an existing solution that fits their needs. From ensuring device-to-cloud security with Azure Sphere to providing multiple approaches for device management and connectivity with Platform as a Service (PaaS) options or a managed app platform, Azure IoT provides the most comprehensive IoT and Edge product portfolio on the market, designed to meet the diverse needs of healthcare solution builders. Solution builders who want to invest their resources in designing, maintaining, and customizing IoT systems from the ground up can do so with our growing portfolio of IoT platform services, leveraging Azure IoT Hub as a starting point. While this approach may be tempting for many, often solution builders struggle when growing their pilot into a globally scalable IoT solution. This process introduces significant complexity to an IoT architecture, requiring expertise across cloud and device security, DevOps, compliance, and more. For this reason, many solution builders might be better suited for starting with a managed platform approach with Azure IoT Central. Using more than two dozen Azure services, Azure IoT Central is designed to continually evolve with the latest service updates and seamlessly accompany solution builders along their IoT journey from pilot to production. With predictable pricing, white labeling, healthcare-specific application templates, and extensibility, solution builders can focus their time on how their device insights can improve outcomes, instead of common infrastructure questions like ingesting device data or ensuring disaster recovery. New tools to accelerate building a healthcare IoT solution Over the past year, we’ve been working hard to create new tools to make IoT solution development easier for our healthcare partners and customers: Azure IoT Central app templates. Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) Connector for Azure. To help you put all of these tools together, we’ve also published a reference architecture diagram for continuous patient monitoring solutions. Continuous patient monitoring reference architecture IoMT FHIR Connector for Azure Interoperability continues to be a huge challenge and critical for most healthcare organizations looking to use healthcare data in innovative ways. Microsoft proudly announced the general availability of our own FHIR server offering, Azure API for FHIR, in October 2019. We are now further enriching the FHIR ecosystem with the IoMT FHIR Connector for Azure, a connector designed to ingest, transform, and store IoT protected health information (PHI) data in FHIR compatible format. Innovative healthcare companies share their IoT stories In addition to rich industry insights like those found in IoT Signals for Healthcare and our previously published stories from Stryker, Gojo, and Wipro, we are releasing two new case stories. They detail the decisions, trade-offs, processes, and results of top healthcare organizations investing in IoT solutions, as well as the healthcare solution builders supporting them. These case studies showcase different approaches to building an IoT solution, based on the unique needs of their business. Read more about how these companies are implementing and winning with their IoT investments. ThoughtWire and Schneider Electric leverage IoT for hospital operations Clinical environments are managed by traditionally disconnected systems (facility management, clinical operations, inventory management, and more), operated by entirely separate teams. This makes it difficult to holistically manage and optimize clinical operations. Schneider Electric, a global expert in facilities management, partnered with ThoughtWire, a specialist in operations management systems, to deliver an end-to-end solution for facilities and clinical operations management. The joint Smart Hospital solution uses Azure’s IoT platform to help hospitals and clinics reduce costs, minimize their carbon footprint, and promote better staff satisfaction, patient experiences and health outcomes. “We don’t just want to understand how the facility operates, we want to understand how patients and clinical staff interact with that infrastructure,” says Chris Roberts, Healthcare Solution Architect at Schneider Electric. “That includes everything to do with patient experience and patient safety. And when you talk about those things, the clinical world and the infrastructure world start to merge and connect. Working with ThoughtWire, we bridge the gap between those two worlds and drive performance improvements.” To learn more, read the case study here. Sensoria Health creates a new gold standard

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Why Microsoft Azure became Most Secured & Reliable Cloud Platform

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In a recent survey, according to 28 percent of surveyed, Microsoft Azure was recognized as the most-used cloud platform, and the one most commonly to be bought or renewed— the largest percentage for any cloud computing provider. With results like this, it’s no surprise the number of businesses deeply invested in Azure keeps climbing. If you are searching for more details about Azure, including how your business could profit from it and make the best use of its services, you are in the correct place. This comprehensive guide covers the basics and beyond, from “What is Microsoft Azure?  How Microsoft Azure is different?? Whenever anyone questioned what Microsoft Azure is, the simplest explanation is this: Azure is a cloud computing system that can deliver everything that industry needs to digitally manage all or part of its computer processes — such as servers, storage, databases, networking, analytics and much more. The only available option to organizations has generally been to create and run the specific hardware required for computation, comprising servers, disk storage, and Ethernet switches. However now, businesses can use a public cloud computing platform like Azure that buys and manages all of the equipment in computation. This means businesses can “lease” hardware resources efficiently, as required. You can select and choose between Azure’s offerings to get the help you need to develop, deliver and manage software for your business processes. And since you’re leasing cloud infrastructure, you don’t have the expenses and shortfalls (like a dedicated IT department) involved with the actual infrastructure that goes with those operations. There are also many advantages above the cost and efficiency we will discuss further. Today, many businesses choose to use a mix of cloud services and on-premise data centres. Some even using different cloud services platforms, based on their needs and concerns. So, don’t worry if you’re interested in making a drastic change to your computer environment or think like you’re lifelong committing to a single business supplier. You’ll want to concentrate rather on deciding the feasibility of cloud technology in parallel to the requirements of your business. Often the simplest way to get the process started is to build a hybrid of the cloud with an established on-premises system.  Who makes use of Microsoft Azure adequately? Firms of all scales take interest in the use of the public cloud platform and many prefer Microsoft Azure. In practice, 85 percent of Fortune 500 businesses are using Azure. Azure appeals to several SMBs enterprises, too. One possible explanation behind this is that it enables SMBs to prevent the large expenditure of resources for facilities; it also eliminates the strain of improvements and maintenance, since they may not have readily available in-house experts to assist. And also because Azure makes it much easier to dynamically resize computing resources in moments, it gives greater versatility that enterprises simply would not have with a conventional on-premise cloud platform. Microsoft Azure Storage If you do cloud hosting, your information will not be processed on your servers anymore. Where exactly is it kept, then? Microsoft intends Azure users ‘ physical data backups, meaning it will be placed at one or more of Microsoft’s 100 + data centres across the world. You can generally determine the country you would like to deposit your information in. Generally speaking, it is suggested that your information be placed near where your customers are. The further away from your consumers, your information is stored, the more connectivity issues they will encounter. Azure will hold and run multiple duplicates of your information, using the process known replication, to ensure that your data is easily accessible. You can choose how to manage duplication — for instance, do you want two duplicates at the same area, or multiple versions processed across multiple locations? Security Standards of Microsoft Azure All major public cloud services, especially Microsoft Azure, have priority over security. With the latest expansion of its Azure Security Center, Microsoft has been particularly concentrated on this topic with a total focus. Azure Security Center is a monitoring tool that helps you to track security flaws and attacks to your Azure assets. This allows identify potentially malicious behavior throughout the hybrid cloud workloads using advanced analytics and suggests alternative remediation measures. Then you can assess those actions and take appropriate steps. Data Encryption at Rest is also provided by Azure, which is the cryptographic encoding of data when it persists. This uses an encryption algorithm for swift encryption and decryption of vast amounts of data. Now that Microsoft Azure has been implemented, we will shift on to the next phase — recognizing what Azure can do for you and your industry. There are various reasons, in my experience, why businesses end up making the move of having Microsoft Azure. Azure has so many functionalities that describing all of them in a single blog post will be practically impossible. Below are six functionalities most important to many enterprises. 1) Disaster Recovery  With Azure, your business gains a strong disaster recovery solution—one that also comes with a more affordable price tag than those associated with traditional computing environments. With Azure, you get access to: Various data storage data centers that enable you to distribute a cloud service to various places around the world. Azure Site Recovery, a service that helps guarantee that your critical business systems remain online by duplicating certain tasks from a host site to a secondary location during an interruption or disturbance. Azure Traffic Manager, which in case of an area-specific failure streamlines traffic routing to multiple locations (determined by the user) 3x Replication of information, ensuring all information you hold in Azure is replicated three stages, either to a single data center or to a second one. 2) Flexibility   The extra capacity to allow high volume tasks needs to be developed into the device. This is particularly true for an on-premise data center that involves purchasing and managing a lot of extra hardware year-round. You can instantly increase your industrial base with the cloud, and then reduce it easily when you’re finished. Besides, you

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Top 5 Reasons to Adopt Trident’s Cloud Services – Highy Secured Cloud Services

One of the best ways to boost your business in the right direction is through cloud services. Whether you have encounter issues with productivity, access to data, or anything else, the answer can be found only in the cloud. If you are not confident as to whether you should be working in the cloud, there are five reasons to assure you. Trident’s cloud services meet today’s business and IT challenges, speed up development and transformation, and lower costs. It also mitigates business risks by providing secure, responsive, high-availability infrastructure which can respond to unexpected demand or market downturns. #1: Effortless Access to Data Plethora of businesses struggle with access to data. If you are carrying a thumb or USB drive around with data that you need, you might jump into problems. Not only may you be going with older data, there could be tons of versions floating around because everyone else is using a thumb drive with a version of the file as well. You may require data when you are not in the office, and therefore you need to simplify access and maintain one version. By transferring all files on the cloud, the access is there as long as you have an internet connection. Further, everyone in a required circle is using the same file with cloud services. #2: Mobilize your teammates If everyone can access their data from the cloud, it is possible to become more mobile. Field agent can have access to forms and databases. Employees that commute out of town will have access to files and spreadsheets. This means that everyone can work more planned without being tethered to a desk inside of the office where the server is. #3: Uplift Your Productivity When everyone has more access to data, the productivity is going to be raised as well. No one will have to look for the data that they need, spend time pulling out reports from their desk to a USB drive, or making a special trip into the office in order to get data. For employees that travel, they don’t have to spend time on phones requesting for documents to be sent to them because they can go into the cloud and get it on their own. As more cloud services are tapped into, more yield can be gained throughout all departments. #4: Get Reports in seconds Everyone will be able to get the reports that they need considerably quicker as well. For example, if you have to turn a report into the office and you are persuing in the field, it may have to be submitted by fax. This means you have to get a fax machine and then someone else in the office has to data enter the information to be pulled into a report for a manager. All of this can be diminished with cloud services because of the way that electronic transmissions are made. #5: Clean Up the Paper Trail When you begin to utilize cloud services to the best of your company’s ability, you are going to notice considerably less paper hassle across your desk. The reason for this is because everything will be digitalize and centric. There will be no more logic to print off forms, have them completed in the field, turned in, and then turned into a digital format. The employee in the field will fill them out electronically, keeping them in digital format. This eliminates paper and reduces bugs that can be made with data entry.

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