Posts Tagged ‘Azure’

Last June I presented at the Milwaukee Sitecore User Group, hosted by one of our clients, Rite-Hite. For my session I provided an overview of a multi-tenant Helix solution on Sitecore 9 with an Azure PaaS infrastructure, along with some lessons learned. I will add additional posts and turn this series, but for now I […]

In the war of cloud computing, AWS is currently the undisputed leader but Microsoft Azure seems to be chipping away at AWS’ lead with every passing quarter. While Google Cloud offers impressive tools as well, it is struggling to keep pace with Azure. This could be traced to Microsoft’s longer tenure in the enterprise market. […]

We recently ran into a mysterious issue when running a Unicorn sync in an Azure environment that turned out to be a classic “path is too long” issue in disguise. Here is what we saw in our logs: ERROR ERROR: Some directories could not be loaded. (9 inner failures) Tree failed to load: master:/sitecore/content/blah/blah (guidguid-guid-guid-guid-guidguidguid) […]

As Gartner predicted, artificial intelligence is emerging as a core business and analytical competency. Although information is still not recognized as a line item in a corporate balance sheet (data as an asset), it is still a strategic asset that can drive business value.  Therefore, it’s important to have data strategy framework in place. On […]

As everything in this world matures and goes through the steps of evolution, Data Science is not much different. Even though it became more affordable for the companies to jump on the Data Science bandwagon and generate quick wins, Volume, Velocity, and Variety are still the bottleneck for most of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects. […]

Sitecore 9.0 introduced a new and very useful feature to easily add federated authentication to the platform. Authentication has been and still is being performed using the ASP.NET Membership functionality for standard Sitecore users, however, Sitecore has implemented the ability to use the new ASP.NET Identity functionality that is based OWIN-middleware. Here’s a stripped-down look […]

Microsoft and Adobe announced their partnership last fall, and as a leading partner to both, we’ve been hard at work understanding how this alliance will benefit our customers. Check out our Adobe blog, where we take a closer look at Adobe Experience Manager and Microsoft Azure, and find out how combining the two solutions can […]

Microsoft and Adobe announced their partnership last fall, and as a leading partner to both, we’ve been hard at work understanding how this alliance will benefit our customers. Rolling out key platform combinations in phases, Adobe and Microsoft are calling their alignment “the perfect partnership for even better experiences,” noting that Adobe Experience Manager running […]

This session was lead by Simon Jones, Glen McInnis, Bart Plasmeijer, and Jaspar van den Bosch from Valtech. They talked about how they manage 1,000 websites in 100 countries and 50 languages across 15 brands for a popular makeup brand. Here are my notes from the session: Principals for success Reuse, reuse, reuse Build for […]

This session was lead by Ciaran McAuliffe from Sitecore. He showed how to use several different tools to deploy Sitecore in Azure using the Platform as a Service (Paas) model. Here are my notes from the session: Azure Marketplace Use this when you need a quick site to test on and you do not need […]

This session was lead by Ciaran McAuliffe from Sitecore. He talked about several things that impact your monthly Azure bill, how to make sure you are not over paying for services you don’t need, and getting enough server for a performant website. Here are my notes from the session: Data Center Pricing Not the same […]

What’s New In Azure? This session was led by Michael Collier. He talked about some of the new features in the Azure portal. The following are my notes from the session: Storage Service Encryption Data encrypted at rest Can have automatic key management Automatically encrypted on save and read Vulnerability Assessment in SQL Runs scans […]