All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
Reading Time: 4 minutesOverview: In most cases when we talk about Azure Architecture, we end up talking about Availability Sets, Availability Zones, or Multi-Region Architectures for redundancy and business continuity. Even though we can be inside the 2ms latency envelope within a specific zone, there are cases where applications are incredibly latency sensitive and even a millisecond of […]
Reading Time: 9 minutesOverview: Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are all the rage right now, and will be going forward in technology. In most cases I will first recommend that customers use offerings such as Azure Cognitive Services, Azure OpenAI, Azure OpenAI (Use Your Data), or […]
Reading Time: 7 minutesOverview: From day one in Azure (which for me was over a decade ago), one of the critical design requirements has been to choose a network address space that doesn’t overlap with that which is configured on-premises or any other connected environments. Admittedly, this has gotten significantly easier since over the years there have been […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesOverview: Azure Firewall is a cloud-native, stateful, managed firewall service with built-in high availability, with incredible automated scaling and throughput capabilities, and many security features. In some cases, though, the price point can be a bit high to get started if they’re being used for basic L3/L4 rules, routing, and NAT capabilities. For this reason, […]
Reading Time: 7 minutesData Box Disk Overview I have written in the past on the considerations of using Data Box for offline data transfers into Azure or using online methods, which was primarily focused on Data Box Heavy. Here I am going to walk through the process of obtaining a Data Box, specifically a Data Box Disk (see […]
Reading Time: 7 minutesI frequently work with organizations who are migrating data from an on-premises datacenter into Azure. Undoubtably the question will come up “should we use an Azure Data Dox to ship that much data?”, and most of the time the room echoes in a resounding “Yes!”. I’ve been working in Azure for many years and have […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesI often find myself having to do a lot of editing of both video and screenshots when using the Azure Portal and I wanted to write a short blog post about this very handy extension I’ve been using recently. The Azure Mask Extension is an open-source tool written by Brian Clark, it works by masking […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast week , Azure Front Door Premium went into Public Preview. While this did bring about some other cool features and integrations, the one I’m most excited about today is the integration with Azure Private Link. This now allows Azure Front Door to make use of Private Link Services (not endpoints, which is what most […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesPart 5, the end of the series! This has been a fun series to write, and I hope it was helpful to some of you. The impetus for this whole thing was the number of times I’ve been asked how to setup shared storage between systems (primarily VMs) in Azure. As we’ve covered, you can […]
Reading Time: 10 minutesWelcome to Part 4 of this 5-part Series on Shared Storage Options in Azure. In this post I’ll be covering Azure NetApp Files. We have talked about other file-based shared storage in Azure already with SMB and NFS on IaaS VMs in Part 2, and again with Azure Files in Part 3. Today, I want […]
