Tag: Azure

Column for Virtualizationreview.com – A Look at Azure Confidential Computing

Back in early February my first monthly column over at virtualizationreview.com was published. In this one I review Azure Confidential Computing, how it works and what the benefits may be in the future. Read it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

Unified Azure Security Center and Operations Management Suite for 4Sysops

A recent article of mine is now live on 4Sysops, covering the integration of Azure Security Center (ASC) and Operations Management Suite (OMS), along with some new features in ASC for security.

Read it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

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.

Nested virtualization in Azure for virtualizationreview.com

My second column is now up at virtualizationreview.com, following on from the first one I look at using nested virtualization in Azure to host a training VM for a Microsoft training course. Read it here.

Enjoy! And thank you for your time and interest in reading this article.

Interview with Ben Armstrong at Ignite Australia 2017 for 4Sysops

Finally my interview with Ben Armstrong at this year’s Ignite here in Australia has been published over at 4sysops– I’ve just been to busy to edit the transcript. We talk about Hyper-V, Azure, Storage Spaces Direct and a lot of other stuff. Find it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

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 Active Directory and Cloud App Discovery for 4Sysops

Continuing my long running series on Azure at 4sysops, this time I look at Azure Active Directory, synchronising it with your on-premises Active Directory and the benefits it offers, as well as the Azure service Cloud App Discovery. This service (CAD?) inventories the cloud services in use in your network (commonly called Shadow IT) to help IT departments to actually know what’s happening instead of guessing. Read it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading. 

Azure for 4Sysops – How to connect virtual networks – Site to Site & ExpressRoute

Rounding off the Azure networking pieces is a post on Site to Site VPN networking between on-premises and Azure, along with a look at ExpressRoute on 4sysops. Read it here. 

Enjoy the post and thanks for reading.

Azure for 4Sysops – How to connect virtual networks – Point to Site

Part two of my series on Azure has been published over at 4sysops, this time I cover connecting your on-premises networks to your Azure virtual network – starting with Point to Site. Read it here.

Thank you for reading.