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Azure Managed Disks

2017-07-18 / Leave a Comment

I’m late to the game on this, but I think it’s worth writing a bit about the new Managed Disks service in Azure. For years, Amazon has had elastic Block Store (EBS)[footnote]I should point out that I know virtually nothing about AWS – I could be way off-base[/footnote]. EBS is a storage system dedicated to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Cloud Computing Tagged: Azure, Azure IaaS, Azure managed disks, IaaS, VM Storage

Key Management in Azure

2017-02-08 / Leave a Comment

Most organizations have secrets, such as private keys and passwords that need to be protected. Many organizations (rightly) are very sensitive to where the secrets are stored, and how they are used. On premises, it’s possible to simply store the keys on a USB drive in a safe, for example, but for larger organizations this … [Read more…]

Posted in: Cloud Computing, Information Security Tagged: Azure, Azure Key Vault, certificate management, Information Security

Controlling Deployments In Your Azure Subscription

2017-01-25 / Leave a Comment

Azure is a great platform. Users have access to a very broad range of hardware and services that can enable IT to transform how the business operates. However, sometimes there’s just too much choice, and administrators need to restrict the ability of contributors to deploy or use certain features. The obvious restriction is limiting VM size – not many organizations have a use for the very large instances, such as the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Cloud Governance Tagged: Azure, Azure Billing, Azure Resource Manager

New – Azure Advisor, Azure Backup

2016-11-19 / Leave a Comment

Wow! I’ve been quite busy the last few weeks and I missed posting. This is no good… especially with all the new stuff announced this week! There’s sometimes lulls in new stuff (at least, that I care about), but this week has been full of cool and exicting features Native VMWare Backup with Azure Backup … [Read more…]

Posted in: Azure Updates Tagged: Azure, Azure IaaS, Azure Security Center, Azure updates, disaster recovery

Azure Security Center

2016-10-19 / Leave a Comment

As organizations increasingly move data and services to Azure, it can be difficult to assess whether the services are implemented in a secure fashion. Many of the traditional datacenter security good practices apply in Azure, but they don’t necessarily translate in an obvious way. Moreover, with the ease with which an administrator can add resources, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Cloud Computing, Information Security Tagged: Azure, Azure IaaS, Azure Security Center, Information Security

Learning Azure – where to get started?

2016-08-27 / Leave a Comment

I spend a lot of my time at work introducing clients to Azure. There’s a lot to learn and understand about Azure – and the cloud computing paradigm in general. I’m often asked questions like: “Where do you learn about Azure?” “Where did you get started with Azure?” “How can I learn about Azure?” “What … [Read more…]

Posted in: Cloud Computing Tagged: Azure, quickstart, training

Some portal updates

2016-08-22 / Leave a Comment

In the last couple weeks, some very welcome updates came to the Azure portal. There’s lots of little changes to the verbiage throughout, such as updating the “Browse” button to “More Services” – I bet the documentation team is going to be updating that for quite some time now. Two of the changes have really … [Read more…]

Posted in: Azure Updates Tagged: Azure, Azure Billing, Azure updates, design

Upgrading Project Nami

2016-08-18 / 1 Comment

It’s been far too long since I’ve posted. I have about 10 posts in draft format, but there’s just too little time to work on them when the weather is beautiful. Summer is too short in Ontario… This is just a quick guide for upgrading WordPress on Project Nami. As I wrote in my first … [Read more…]

Posted in: Meta Tagged: Azure, Azure Web Sites, Project Nami, WordPress

App Modernization 2: Dos and Dont’s

2016-06-08 / Leave a Comment

Continuing my previous post on Application Modernization, here I talk about some approaches that work, and some that don’t. tl;dr: Take your time moving to the cloud, and take the time to split the migration into stages – so that you can start taking advantage of the cloud using fairly simple architecture, then, as you … [Read more…]

Posted in: Cloud Migration Tagged: Application Modernization, Azure, cloud migration, development

App Modernization 1: What defines a Cloud-Ready Application?

2016-06-03 / Leave a Comment

A significant portion of my time working in Azure is spent working with clients who are planning on moving, are moving, or have moved existing applications to the cloud. This, of course, makes sense – it’s nice to imagine a world in which new business applications can be rebuilt on a regular basis, but in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Cloud Migration Tagged: Application Modernization, Azure, cloud migration, development
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