Category: Azure

Cover Story for virtualizationreview print edition–Azure overview

My newest article is the cover story for virtualizationreview.com’s printed edition.

The article is also online, find it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

PS I forgot to cover Cosmos DB in the article – a global, hyperscale database for any application with five different convergence models for distributed data.

Azure Usage and Billing Portal for 4Sysops

Here’s another post that was published a while ago on 4Sysops. This time I looked at a “hobby project” from a couple of people in the Azure engineering team. This is a study in deploying a “complex” piece of software in Azure but the end result is a PowerBI dashboard to track usage and billing across multiple subscriptions. Find it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

Azure Business to Business (B2B) for 4Sysops

I’m catching up on some posts that were published a while ago (on 4Sysops) but I never mentioned them here. Azure Business to Business (B2B) sounds very similar to the B2C service but has a totally different target audience.

Find it here.

Enjoy and thanks for reading.

Azure Resource Manager Policies for 4Sysops

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is a very important part of how to deploy and manage cloud resources in Azure going forward. I covered ARM here. Recently, Microsoft added ARM policies, a way to control where (which region), what type (VM, WebApp, Databases etc.), enforcing naming conventions and requiring deployments to have specific tags attached for tracking. It’s pretty cool, check it out here.

Enjoy! And thanks so much for reading.

Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) vs. Data Protection Manager (DPM) for 4Sysops

Recently Microsoft really upped their game in cloud backup with the new MABS server. Previously, you could only backup volumes to Azure, no application backup, no VM awareness etc. By taking System Center Data Protection Manager and cutting out some features, there’s all of a sudden a very good backup tool for both on-premises and cloud backup. The only catch is that, unlike with DPM, even if you only backup to local disk with MABS, you pay per backed up server, per month. Read it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

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