Microsoft IoT Central Enables SaaS-based IoT Solutions
Many software systems can become fairly complex with many different interconnected and communicating components. Internet of Things (IoT) solutions can especially become complex. Instead of…
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and service provided by Microsoft. It offers a wide range of cloud services, including computing, analytics, storage, and networking. Azure enables businesses and developers to build, deploy, and manage applications through Microsoft’s global network of data centers. With support for various programming languages, tools, and frameworks, Azure provides solutions for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Known for its strong integration with Microsoft products and services, Azure is designed to provide secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions for enterprises of all sizes.
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Azure Outages with Azure Front Door and Internal Azure WAN (October 6 – 7, 2020)
It seems Microsoft is having quite a few outages lately. With last weeks Azure AD outage, Microsoft has continued to have some service disruptions this…
What is Azure Operations Management Suite?
The Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) is a SaaS (Software as a Service) offering that is part of the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform. The Operations Management…
Azure Features and Regions, Oh My!?
Microsoft Azure has tons of data centers and region. At the time of writing this, Azure is made up of 24 regions with more, new…
Microsoft Redefines Leadership in Top 100 Global Technology Leader list by Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters has released their first Top 100 Global Technology Leaders list to define new criteria for determining leadership in the 21st century. They’ve already…
Top 11 Azure IoT Announcements from Build 2020
Microsoft made a ton of announcements at and around the Microsoft Build 2020 conference. Included in all the announcements was a tone of news surrounding…
Create Azure SQL Database in the Azure Portal
Here’s a short video that shows you how to create an Azure SQL Database in the Azure Portal. It also explains how to connect to…
Microsoft Wins DoD JEDI Contract worth $10 Billion
In the battle over cloud providers, the bid for the United States Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract is a big…
Microsoft Azure Data Center Energy Efficiency
A while ago I posted on the fact that Microsoft Azure Data Centers are Made of ITPAC Containers. This doesn’t just make the data centers…
Top Azure IoT Announcements and Sessions from Microsoft Ignite 2020
There have been a few great Azure IoT announcements and session made available by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Ignite 2020 virtual conference. With…
Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) Manufacturing Delayed, Shipping pushed to Sept 21
The new Azure IoT Developer Kit is a pretty nice IoT prototyping board with tons of sensors and things built-in. On Aug 11, 2017, Microsoft,…
MkeAzure Slides: Getting Started with IoT using Azure, Windows IoT and Raspberry Pi
On Aug 17, 2016 I gave a “Getting Started with IoT” talk at the Milwaukee Azure group. In my talk I covered the basics of…
Microsoft Azure Space – Innovation on Earth and Beyond
Microsoft is advancing cloud datacenters where no cloud datacenter has gone before; into Space! They have brought together a team of renowned space industry veterans…
Free eBook: Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Hybrid Capabilities
Microsoft Press has made the new “Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Hybrid Capabilities” eBook freely available. This book is written by Jeremy Taylor, Neil Hodgkinson, and Manas…
How my passion for BCDR saved my life
I have been working in technology since 1995. My first real job was working for Citibank Mortgage as a Novell Netware administrator. As a new…
Azure is the future for Microsoft and the Enterprise
Azure has come along way in regards to features and pretty much every aspect of the service since it’s initial launch in 2010. In the…
Save Money in Azure Tip 1: Compare Azure Region Pricing
In this video, I show you the specifics on comparing Azure Region pricing information around Virtual Machine hosting. As you can see, the Azure Regions…
Linux Lift and Shift Hands-on Lab – Microsoft Cloud Workshop
In this hands-on lab, you will migrate an on-premises based help desk application called OsTicket, to Azure. This will be a two-phase project to lift-and-shift…
Azure IoT Hub and DPS to only support TLS 1.2 on July 1, 2020
Microsoft has announced they are moving Azure IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service (DPS) to use Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 as the encryption mechanism…
Migrate to Azure DevTest Labs
Earlier this year I wrote a few new articles for the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). One of the docs I was excited about is…