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Optimizing Azure Storage with Fabrics
Overview Microsoft Azure Storage is a cloud-native solution designed for modern data scenarios. It provides highly available, massively scalable, durable, and secure storage for a wide range of object types. The platform includes several services, which fall into two billing models: usage-based and provisioned-capacity-based. Billed Based on Actual Usage Azure Blobs – Massively scalable object storage for text and binary data, with integrated support for analytics via Data
Mark Thompson
1 day ago2 min read
Secure, Policy-Driven Automation
SECURITY BRIEF This paper explains how Fabrics integrates with Azure Monitor and ARM to use existing telemetry, without touching production workloads, to enforce customer-defined optimization policies that automatically adjust resources in real time, maintaining ideal performance and capacity at the lowest possible cost. Executive Summary Microsoft Azure collects resource‑level telemetry such as CPU, memory, disk I/O, network activity, and storage consumption from Azure se
Mark Thompson
1 day ago4 min read
Redefining Cloud Efficiency - Improved Performance, Resiliency & Costs
Introduction Enterprises today are under relentless pressure to accelerate digital initiatives, launch new services, and scale operations globally. But this speed often carries a hidden cost -bloated cloud estates. Over-provisioned virtual machines, underutilized databases, and misaligned environments silently drain millions from IT budgets. What seems like agility on the surface can quickly turn into financial waste that erodes margins and limits innovation. This whitepaper
Mark Thompson
1 day ago5 min read
Addressing Enterprise Control - Technical Overview
Addressing Enterprise Control, Predictability, and Security in Azure Automation This paper explains how Fabrics addresses enterprise control, predictability, and security in Azure, through its architecture, policy-driven automation engine, and granular control model. Enterprises can safely automate cost optimization while maintaining visibility, control, and governance. Executive Summary Enterprises today face a fundamental mismatch: cloud capacity is provisioned for peak
Mark Thompson
1 day ago5 min read


Automate File Share and Data Disk Sizes Using Fabrics Cloud Manager
Microsoft Azure enables companies to manage file shares and virtual disks on a whole new playing field. But without new rules for the game on this field, companies get the feature benefits but miss the management time and cost savings! By moving files shares and virtual machines to Azure, companies can attain the advantages and flexibility of the cloud in their hybrid or cloud environments. File shares can be access through SMB from anywhere. Virtual machines can be provis
Mark Thompson
Nov 112 min read


What is Holding Back Azure Deployments and Migrations - What is Fabrics Doing to Help?
The Fabrics Azure Deployment and Migration tool is really a TRANSLATOR. When we (the owners of Cornerstone Support – a tech enabled professional services company) decided in 2017 that we wanted to move our On-Prem infrastructure to the cloud we realized quickly that there were very few providers that understood the complexities of Microsoft Azure (the ones that did understand were so Azure focused they weren’t very helpful in developing a roadmap for legacy On-Prem infrastru
Mark Thompson
Nov 113 min read


Fintech Case Study: Cornerstone Licensing
Shift to Microsoft Azure allows service company to thrive during Covid, attracts acquisition and births Fabrics Cloud Manager to drive cloud migrations for other firms. By 2017, it had become possible for any organization, regardless of size, to migrate their entire computing infrastructure to the cloud, making the business case that doing so would reduce their overall IT infrastructure spend (or Total Cost of Ownership – TCO), increase their workforce effectiveness, eliminat

Matt Pridemore
Nov 111 min read
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