All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Overview: 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: 9 minutes Overview: 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 minutes Data 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 minutes I 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 minutes I 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 […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Last 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 minutes Part 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 minutes Welcome 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 […]
Reading Time: 8 minutes Welcome to Part 3 of this 5-part Series on Shared Storage Options in Azure. In this post I’ll be covering Azure Storage Services. You may be thinking to yourself, wait a minute, what have we been talking about this whole time then? Azure Storage Services is easiest thought of being the term used for the […]
Reading Time: 9 minutes Recently, I posted the “Shared Storage Options in Azure: Part 1 – Azure Shared Disks” blog post, the first in the 5-part series. Today I’m posting Part 2 – IaaS Storage Server. While this post will be fairly rudimentary insofar as Azure technical complexity, this is most certainly an option when considering shared storage options […]
