Hardware
Policy-Based Routing on Unifi USG PRO 4
As an Azure MVP, I spent a lot of time teaching and giving webinars on the topic of moving to the cloud. A few months…
Tag: infrastructure
Certification
Introducing the Azure Administrator Certification Track from Microsoft
Microsoft continually updates the content of the different Microsoft Azure certification exams, but it’s been almost 2 years since they really updated the Microsoft Certification…
Certification
AZ-102 Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification Transition Exam (RETIRED)
The AZ-102 Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification Transition certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Administrator around managing cloud services that span storage,…
Cloud
Polynimbus is the future of the cloud
There’s so much competition in the cloud computing space. According to Forbes, the Cloud Providers at the top in the current “Cloud War” are Microsoft,…
Azure Compute
Nested VMs in Azure with one click? You must be crazy…
When I first heard that you could run nested VMs with Azure, I ran over to my laptop to deploy one of those shiny new…
Azure Hybrid
70-537 Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Azure Stack Exam (RETIRED)
The 70-537 Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack certification exam is now available. The exam was originally announced back in November…
Microsoft Azure
How big is the Microsoft Azure Cloud?
The Microsoft Azure Cloud is huge. It’s the largest cloud provider in the world with 38 Regions currently (30 online) spread across the globe, and…
Certification
MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Certification (RETIRED)
There are a total of 5 Azure specific certification exams available from Microsoft currently. If you pass each of these individually you will earn a…
DevOps
What is Infrastructure as Code? (IaC)
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a modern approach to managing and provisioning computing infrastructure through machine-readable configuration files, rather than through physical hardware configuration or…
Cloud
Cloud vs On-Premises: Security, Reliability and Uptime
There’s a lot of buzz about the “Cloud” as a result of the rapid growth and adoption of cloud-based services like Microsoft Azure of the…
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure Cost Estimator Tool
The Microsoft Azure Cost Estimator Tool allows for the necessary hosting resources of an enterprise environment to be mocked up as the appropriate Azure instances…
DevOps
Free DevOps Virtual Workshop Sessions
Microsoft recently hosted a DevOps Virtual Workshop where they provided a deep dive into topics covering how to manage, automate, and transform applications and workloads…
Microsoft Azure
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,…
Certification
Azure Cert Exam Update: March 10, 2016
The trilogy of Microsoft Azure Certification exams first debuted more than one year ago. In that time there have been some tremendous changes and additions…
Microsoft Azure
Free eBook: Fundamentals of Azure
The book “Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure” has been made available as a Free eBook from Microsoft Press and Microsoft Virtual Academy. This book…
Azure IoT
Azure IoT Hub Now Generally Available
On Feb 3, 2016, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Azure IoT Hub is now Generally Available (GA). Azure IoT Hub service is available stand-alone or as…
Certification
Which Azure Cert Exam is Best for Me?
There’s been a huge increase in the need to get trained in Microsoft Azure, and as a result the interest / need to get certified…
Azure Hybrid
What is Azure Stack?
Microsoft Azure Stack is a fairly new feature set to complement the Azure Platform, however, Azure Stack isn’t quite the usual feature addition to the…
Azure Data & Storage
Azure Storage Explorer now supports Linux and more
When the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer was first released, it did seem a little odd that Microsoft would neglect supporting Linux. However, they did support…
Certification
Microsoft Azure Certification: Where to Start? 2015 Edition
The question of “Where do I start?” can be confusing if you’ve never studied for or taken a Microsoft Certification exam before. It can also…