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Global Equipment and Tool Rental Company Leverages ePlus Cloud Managed Services for Azure

This industry leader accelerates their business with unique and market-differentiated services on Microsoft Azure, executing multiple new product launches in Azure—on average 45 days ahead of schedule—and enjoying cost savings of 38% of its total Azure spend through ePlus FinOps practices.

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How to Achieve a 90% Azure Health Score? It’s All About Assessments

Staying abreast of the 300+ Azure services and 38 weekly service updates is no easy task. The ePlus Cloud Managed Services assessment can help you attain a health score of 90% with emphasis on security, architecture, and financial elements.

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Planning for Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) Upgrades

AKS is one of the few Azure PaaS that require customer-initiated upgrades, and while they are significantly easier than traditional Kubernetes upgrades they still require some planning. In this blog we’ll discuss the pros and cons of two general approaches to AKS upgrades.

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Making Sense of Governance Data

Since the original inception of our internally-developed “Ongoing Validation” toolset, we wanted to implement a scoring system to help make data more digestible and practical—to easily identify issues, then remediate as effectively and efficiently as possible. With our recent ECMS release, we’ve debuted a new scoring system and distributed it to all of our current customers as well as those evaluating our service.

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Evolving Beyond Conventional Tooling

At ePlus, we’re fortunate to talk to a wide variety of organizations around their use of Microsoft Azure. A frequent topic that comes up in conversation is our approach to deliver ePlus Cloud Managed Services for Azure using proprietary tools.

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Microsoft Network Ranges

Microsoft owns a lot of IP blocks—at last count ~95K. If you've reviewed requirements for a service or application that consumes other Microsoft services, you may be daunted by the need to determine which IP blocks are needed. Microsoft Service Tags can help, but some firewalls do not support them. ePlus has created a handy tool that can help.

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PaaS Right Sizing

At ePlus, we’re big fans of Microsoft Azure's built-in cost optimization tooling and leverage it heavily. However, there are a few gaps from our view, and we've built tools to help other organizations resolve those shortcomings—one of which is the right sizing of various Platform as a Service (PaaS) instances.

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Bringing IaC Concepts to Non-IaC Deployment

So what does that even mean? Most IT staff have heard of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) but committing fully to it eludes a lot of organizations. Why is that? Check out a technical deep dive exploring how integrating any of the concepts of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) into your existing non-IaC automation approach will pay dividends.

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Getting a Consistent Result with Ongoing Validation

Learn more about ePlus’ approach to Ongoing Validation and how we've been able to help organizations ensure that no matter who deploys instances in Azure—with what toolset or approach—they get a consistent result.

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Manage and Optimize Your Azure Consumption with FinOps

FinOps is one of the eight core tenets of the ePlus Cloud Managed Services approach. With an integrated and mature approach to FinOps, you can effectively consume cloud at scale while measuring the true value that it brings to your business. Read more, including a real-world use case.

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Lessons Learned in Azure Managed Services: An Introduction

Welcome to our first ePlus Cloud Managed Services (ECMS) blog. We developed this blog series to provide relevant content and tips, practical use cases, and examples of how to reduce risk and optimize spend. Let’s start by sharing a bit about ePlus, and explain how we’ve gained a unique perspective in the Azure Managed Services space.

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