This September, Azure Back to School 2025 is taking place, with loads of awesome sessions and great community content. My session, “Building a Cloud Centric Network with Azure Virtual WAN” is available to watch below: Check out all of the other awesome sessions and content here: https://azurebacktoschool.com/ For those who saw my previous years entry to Azure Back to School, […]
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Recently I’ve been working with individuals and organisations looking to adopt Terraform (and Infrastructure as Code in general), as part of their Azure strategy or ongoing Azure development. Whilst it’s fair to say this is unlikely to be an overnight process, and rather a process that will take time and development – there are lots of things that can help […]
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Firstly – apologies for the lack of content this month, I’ve been super busy outside of work as a result of moving house, so time has been very limited! This is just a quick update on a couple of items I have been working on. In this quick post I wanted to highlight a new Azure Local feature, currently in […]
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Like many people, I’ve been using Azure Copilot to help with Azure Administration tasks and operations, and have seen how it can really help to enhance various aspects, taking the complexity out of tasks and operations, and providing guidance that I feel will benefit everyone using Azure – from seasoned experts to those new to Azure. Copilot for Azure became […]
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This year for Azure Spring Clean, I wanted to focus on an area that is becoming increasingly common with Clients I work with, and a key technology trend I regularly see – the need for Hybrid considerations within Landing Zones, considering not only Cloud based resources, but also those that are an extension of your Cloud environment (Cloud networking, Hybrid […]
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As you may have seen from some of my other posts, I’ve recently been doing more work with Azure Local. It’s an area that’s developed significantly in recent times, and one I am seeing lots of interest in. Previously I wrote about the use of GPU-P, and in this post, I wanted to cover off the use of the Azure […]
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Recently I’ve been doing more testing with Azure Local, specifically with 23H2 and testing the deployment process, configuration options, and more. In this short post I wanted to write up on some testing I have been doing with GPU accelerated Virtual Machines. Note that GPU assignment and passthrough are currently in preview – see here. This will be the first […]
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As you may have seen on LinkedIn, throughout the months of January and February, myself and fellow blogger Jakub Fras will be posting every Friday on topics related to Microsoft Azure. I’ll be posting on my blog here, and Jakub on his awesome blog here. This post will be a tale of two halves, with part of this post being […]
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This September, Azure Back to School 2024 is taking place, with loads of awesome sessions and great community content. My session, “Building a Cloud Centric Network with Azure Virtual WAN” is available to watch below: Check out all of the other awesome sessions and content here: https://azurebacktoschool.com/ In this post I will provide a summary overview of Azure Virtual WAN, […]
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Recently I have been focusing on learning more about Azure Stack HCI – it’s an area that continues to be a focus point in my daily role. Key to the uptake of Azure Stack HCI is a drive to centralise on the Azure Ecosystem that I see with many of the customers I work with. For this post I wanted […]
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Recently I took and passed the SC-100 Exam, which, if you also hold the required prerequisites (SC-200, SC-300, or AZ-500), gains you Microsoft Certified Cybersecurity Architect. I found the exam fairly challenging – and must admit this was one of broadest Microsoft exams I’ve taken, which is to be expected really with this level of exam. As always, after passing […]
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Backups, Disaster Recovery, and ensuring continuity of business data and operations, are arguably one of the most important aspects for anyone working in the IT industry. Our technically connected and data-driven world revolves around our ability to ensure our data is safe, secure, and protected from a range of issues that could prevail. In the Azure Infrastructure as Code (IAC) […]
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