Azure Marketplace: FreeBSD 10.3
Over the last couple years Microsoft has been working to make FreeBSD a first class VM guest on Hyper-V. One of the primary reasons to…
Cloud
The “Cloud” refers to a network of remote servers hosted on the internet that store, manage, and process data, rather than relying on local servers or personal computers. This technology enables users to access and utilize computing resources and services, such as storage, databases, software, and analytics, from anywhere with an internet connection. Cloud computing offers scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency, allowing individuals and organizations to quickly adapt to changing needs without significant upfront investment in hardware and infrastructure. Popular cloud service providers include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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Azure Migration Readiness Whitepaper
Recently, Microsoft Azure experts Chris Pietschmann and Dan Patrick, in collaboration with Microsoft, have developed the comprehensive Azure Migration Readiness Whitepaper. This essential resource guides…
What is Azure Resource Manager?
In the early days of Microsoft Azure the Portal was the primary tool to go in and configure your cloud components. After some time the…
Messaging Architecture: What is AMQP?
Messaging has become pretty fundamental with the wider adoption of Microservices and other cloud design pattern. There are many ways to transmit a message. Many messaging…
AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure Certification Exam
The AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Developer. This exam tests your expertise across all…
Free eBook: Azure Automation
The book “Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Automation” written by Michael McKeown is written to target IT Pros and PowerShell developers to help them understand the…
Azure CLI: Add/Remove IP Addresses on Azure Synapse Firewall
Recently, I performed a lot of work as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer on a project that utilizes Azure Synapse for a…
Is Azure Active Directory Microsoft’s weakest link?
How can there be a single point of failure in a service that runs the entire Microsoft cloud? Yesterday, there was a global outage of…
Detect and Handle a Twitter Outage with Azure Logic Apps
As I’m writing this Twitter is down, and it’s actually been down for at least 20 minutes now. It’s hard to tell exactly how long…
Accelerate Your Multicloud Security Strategy
Enterprises are increasingly adopting multicloud strategies—leveraging a mix of cloud service providers such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—to…
Announcing Azure IoT Edge
The all new Microsoft Azure IoT Edge brings down the power and capabilities of Azure IoT down to run natively on individual Internet of Things…
Azure Infographic: API Management
Microsoft has published a number of infographics to help give some visual guidance to various aspects of the Azure cloud. One of these infographics is…
Azure TLS certificate changes
Microsoft is making changes to their certificates and it is important to understand how these changes will impact your deployments. Azure will be changed to…
Why Microsoft Azure?
Many companies are migrating existing or building new systems on the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform. There’s a lot of buzz lately around the Cloud overall,…
Introduction to the Azure Portal
Here’s a short video I recorded that goes over how to access the Azure Portal (the Current Azure Management Portal). I cover an overview of…
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 Infographic: Cloud Security (2016)
There are a number of infographics that Microsoft has made available to better visualize different scenarios with Microsoft Azure. One of these infographics is on…
What is Microservices Architecture?
What really is a Microservices Architecture? The term “Microservices” has become fairly popular in recent years, and has coincided largely with the increasingly popular move to…
Microsoft Blockchain Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF) Released
It’s been about a year and a half since Microsoft first announced the Coco Framework they’ve been working on. It’s been about a full year…
Order Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) on Amazon with FREE Shipping
The Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) is a really amazing little IoT (Internet of Things) prototyping board with lots of sensors, buttons, OLED display, Wifi,…