Confidential Computing for Virtualization Review

I’m catching up on the last few months of my column on virtualizationreview.com. This one is from April 2023, where I look at Confidential Computing in Azure and how I think this will become much more mainstream in the future.

Read it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

Azure Spreads its Wings at Build for Virtualizationreview.com

My latest monthly column for virtualizationreview.com was just published here.

I cover the announcement of Azure App service now being available (in preview) to run on any Kubernetes cluster, the great strides made in Confidential Computing plus a few other interesting new features.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

Cross Region Restore CRR for VMs for Altaro

In the lead up to Christmas I had a couple of my blog posts go live over at Altaro.com.

The first one covers Cross Region Restore (CRR) for VMs that you back up in one Azure region and you can then restore in another region (for testing purposes or in case of an outage). Previously you had to wait for Microsoft to declare an outage in the primary region before you could do the restore.

Read it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

Microsoft Security Updates from Ignite 2020 for Altaro

Just when I thought I had the (similarly sounding names) of Microsoft’s security services / products down pat, it all changed at Ignite 2020. Most products have been given new names and this post I wrote for Altaro covers the highlights.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

Column for Virtualizationreview.com – Network Connectivity in and to Azure: Private Link

My second virtualizationreview.com  column for this month was published recently, here I look at networking in Azure in the context of the recently released preview of Private Link. Read it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading. 

Column for Virtualizationreview.com – A Look at the New Azure Releases & Improvements Revealed at Build 2019

My latest column for Virtualizationreview.com has been live for a little while now. In this one I look at the updates released for Azure at the Build conference a few months ago. Read it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.