It was only a month or so ago that I was writing about the new ‘Standard SSD’ offering in Azure, a disk that offers the same reliable availability and improved latency of the Premium SSD disk but kept the same IOPS and throughput as a standard HHD. Well, with the plethora of announcements coming out … Continue reading Ultra SSD Disks in Azure
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Power Management in Azure
Turning your unused VMs off has long been a cost saver, you only pay for the storage when the VM is turned off and not for the running cost of the VM itself. Microsoft has for a while had the ability to shutdown the VM on a schedule but offered no real solution on how … Continue reading Power Management in Azure
Size flexibility for Azure Reserved Instances
A while ago now I covered Azure’s Reserved Instance (RI) feature and how its use can dramatically reduce the TCO for your Azure VMs. Well this useful feature just got even better! Microsoft are introducing ‘size flexibility for Azure Reserved Instances’ With traditional RI’s you chose the VM instance size (D4s_v3 for example) and how … Continue reading Size flexibility for Azure Reserved Instances
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
If you would like to start deploying and configuring your environment via code but not sure where to start, or how to structure and write a JSON template then you’re in luck! Microsoft has a whole host of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates on Github for you to explore and use as you need. And … Continue reading Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
ASR from Google Cloud Platform to Azure
Enabling multi-cloud fail-over of VMs (I’m a big fan of multi-cloud and not having an 'OR' mindset - Azure OR GCP, Azure OR AWS) is much easier than you may think, especially when one of the cloud environments you’re using is Azure. ASR (Azure Site Recovery), a Microsoft Azure service that orchestrates and manages disaster … Continue reading ASR from Google Cloud Platform to Azure
Next User Group dates announced
We’re pleased to have the next NAUG (Northern Azure User Group) dates for you diaries. We had a great first event with speakers from the Co-op and their journey to the cloud and Microsoft gave an interesting look into all things containers. August 28th - Terraform and Chaos Monkey A great session on how Terraform can support … Continue reading Next User Group dates announced
Azure Virtual WAN
If like many customer you have branch offices throughout the UK or indeed world you’ll know the cost and effort involved in getting theses small but just as important offices connected to your cloud environment. A common model is the hub and spoke, connecting your smaller branch offices over VPN connections back to your head … Continue reading Azure Virtual WAN
Azure Data Box Disk
(Image from Microsoft) Microsoft like any cloud provider wants as much of your data, and as many of your services and servers as possible running in their cloud services. Having said that even a small business can have serious amounts of data, and getting that data up into your cloud of choice isn’t so easy … Continue reading Azure Data Box Disk
Azure Firewall
Microsoft have announced their Azure Firewall service, a fully stateful and native firewall service for Azure has gone into public preview. With standard cloud service features such as high availability and the ability to scale automatically on demand it’s a great adding to the now large and diverse Azure security lineup. Azure Firewall will allow … Continue reading Azure Firewall
New storage options in Azure
Microsoft announced a new SSD option for their IaaS virtual machines - Standard SSD. Microsoft have offered two disk options for a long time now; standard SSD a great option for storage needs of very low cost, infrequent access but would not be recommended for production environments. The second option was their premium SSD which … Continue reading New storage options in Azure
