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Azure News February 2021
Save 30% on Windows Virtual Desktop computing costs Microsoft has announced a Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) offer that allows new customers to save...
Save 30% on Windows Virtual Desktop Computing Costs
Please note this offer ended on 31/03/21. Microsoft has announced a Windows Virtual Desktop offer that allows new customers to save up to 30% on...
Node4 helps Novacroft to continue uninterrupted through COVID-19 uncertainty
Derby, 26th January 2021 - Node4, the cloud, data centre and communications solutions provider, has today announced that is has provided Novacroft...
Azure News January 2021
Microsoft promises 99.99% uptime for Azure AD user authentication As of April 1st, 2021, Microsoft has promised to update their public service...
Head-to-Head with Windows Virtual Desktop and Its Black Screen Logon Issue
When logging into a Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) environment, you would expect a relative “quickness” to get to your desktop. However, for the past...
Azure News December 2020
Azure Cost Management + Billing updates No matter the size of your business it’s important to know what you’re spending, where, and how you can...
New Features & Capabilities in Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)
Recently there has been a good handful of new features released into the world of Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) to make your experience just that...
Nuffield Health modernises infrastructure with Node4 to provide seamless digital services amidst COVID-19
Node4 is working with Nuffield Health to provide digital solutions and a cloud-first approach for the future of customer demand DERBY, UK – 24...
Azure News November 2020
Optimise your Azure workloads with the new Azure Advisor Score Azure Advisor Score helps you understand how well your Azure workloads are following...
Azure News October 2020
In case you missed Microsoft Ignite 2020... Microsoft Ignite 2020 took place last month and as ever there were a ton of new capabilities, features...
Getting Hands-On With Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)
This blog was co-authored by Tim Rohde, Azure Platform Engineer, N4Stack. So, let's talk Windows Virtual Desktop or WVD as the cool kids call it. A...
Installing Oracle AHF and Running ORAchk on Linux and Windows
Is your Oracle database in need of some TLC? Then you need ORAchk (Oracle Check). The utility examines an Oracle system’s configuration looking for...
Azure News September 2020
Share big data at scale with Azure Data Share in-place sharing for Azure Data Explorer Microsoft Azure Data Share is an open, easy, and secure way...
Azure News August 2020
New Windows Virtual Desktop capabilities now generally available During the pandemic we've seen a huge growth in remote working and as a result, the...
Whitespace delivers one year of no unplanned downtime to its customers, thanks to Node4’s managed services
Whitespace Software, the digital insurance and reinsurance trading platform, has today announced that it has delivered one year of continued 100%...
Oracle 12.2.0.1 Support Ends 30.11.20… What to do?
Oracle 12c (version 12.2.0.1) was released in March 2017 and is widely used across businesses in both Standard and Enterprise Edition versions. As...
Azure News July 2020
Azure responds to COVID-19 Over the past few months, during the pandemic, Microsoft have seen unprecedented demand across their cloud services,...
A Glance at Azure Governance: 5 Areas to Focus on for Azure Adoption
When it comes to Azure adoption, you need to use different governance tools to achieve the best outcomes for your business. Here at N4Stack, we work...
Analysing Honeypot Data with Sentinel
Carrying on my series of posts around Azure Sentinel, I wanted to see if I could use it to process logs from a honeypot and produce useful...
5 Key Priorities for DataOps Teams
Having business systems that are scalable, performant and that adequately underpin key applications has always been important. Yet the recent global...
Azure DevOps Ansible Pipeline
I thought it was about time that I started to have a play with Azure DevOps a little more than I have been doing. One of the things I have always...
Azure News June 2020
AZURE NEWS N4STACK LAUNCHES AZURE SERVICE TILES IN LINE WITH MICROSOFT'S CAF Last month we launched the Azure Service Tiles, a best practice...
The Beginner’s Guide to Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework
The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) is essentially an all-encompassing guide which should primarily be used by Cloud Architects to help...
N4Stack launches new ‘Azure Service Tiles’ service to aid customers in their cloud adoption
The market-leading product suite is aligned to Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework, helping customers implement the business and technology...
Meet Our Azure Experts
In May we sat down with some of our Azure experts to do a deep dive into their experience, how they like to work, and discuss current and future...
Azure News April 2020
AZURE NEWS WHAT'S NEW IN THE CLOUD ADOPTION FRAMEWORK (CAF)? April saw a number of updates to the Cloud Adoption Framework documentation. One...
Ansible and the Azure REST API
Over the last few months I have been doing more and more work with Ansible to manage end-to-end deployments in Azure. For the most part Ansible’s...
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CloudStack[d] March 2020
MICROSOFT AZURE MICROSOFT SEES 775% INCREASE IN CLOUD SERVICES Due to the recent Government advice to work from home where possible,...
Network IDS & Azure Sentinel
I've been starting to use Azure Sentinel recently and explore some of its capabilities - there are currently about 40 built-in data-connectors that...
5 Benefits of Performance Tuning and Optimising Your Database
Does it seem like there is never enough time to optimise and tune your database? Perhaps it is slipping down your to-do list for that elusive moment...
Looking Back On a Decade of Change
It’s 2020 – not only a new year, but a new decade! To help us come to terms with the shock that we blinked, and the past decade flew by we sat down...
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CloudStack[d] December 2019
MICROSOFT AZURE ANNOUNCING THE PREVIEW OF AZURE SPOT VIRTUAL MACHINES Azure Spot Virtual Machines provide access to unused Azure compute...
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CloudStack[d] November 2019
MICROSOFT AZURE ANNOUNCING AZURE ARC: UNLOCKING NEW HYBRID SCENARIOS As more business operations and applications expand to include edge...
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CloudStack[d] August 2019 Newsletter
MICROSOFT AZURE INTRODUCING AZURE DEDICATED HOSTNow in preview and available in most Azure regions, Azure Dedicated Host acts as a dedicated...
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CloudStack[d] July Newsletter
MICROSOFT AZURE SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2008/R2 COMES TO AN ENDJuly 9th marked the last day of SQL Server 2008/R2 support. In an ideal...
Key Takeaways from the Red Hat EMEA Partner Conference 2019
I recently spent a few days in Prague attending the Red Hat EMEA Partner Conference 2019, where one of the presenters jokingly responded that "Red...
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CloudStack[d] June Newsletter
MICROSOFT AZURE INTERCONNECTING MICROSOFT AZURE AND ORACLE CLOUD Microsoft and Oracle have partnered up to deliver a highly-optimised,...
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CloudStack[d] May Newsletter
MICROSOFT AZURE GENERALLY AVAILABLE: AZURE RED HAT OPENSHIFT Azure Red Hat OpenShift was announced last year at Red Hat Summit 2018. The...
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CloudStack[d] April Newsletter
MICROSOFT AZURE THE TIME HAS COME FOR SERVERLESS AUTOMATION IN AZURE FUNCTIONS In April Microsoft announced the preview release of...
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CloudStack[d] March Newsletter
MICROSOFT AZURE INTRODUCING MICROSOFT AZURE SENTINEL Azure Sentinel has been designed by Microsoft to empower your SecOps team to see...
Key Takeaways from Microsoft Ignite 2019
Food, travel and tech are three of my favourite things so to say I was lucky enough to attend the Microsoft Ignite London Tour last week...
Top Tips to Approaching DevOps Adoption
So, you're thinking of moving to a DevOps approach but don't know where to start? Concerned about how long it will take? Unsure about how to keep up...
Jack Reacher Should Be In Charge of IT Security | Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst
Over the past few years the companies either ‘fessing up or being outed by the media for data breaches has dramatically increased, as...
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CloudStack[d] January Newsletter
MICROSOFT AZURE AZURE DEVOPS SERVER 2019 RC2 NOW AVAILABLE In January Microsoft announced that Azure DevOps RC2, the last planned...
Interview with April Edwards, Azure AppDev Specialist, Microsoft
Recently we sat down with April Edwards, Azure AppDev Specialist at Microsoft, to talk all things Azure. We found out what the blockers for adoption...
The Importance of Scaffolding in Azure Cloud Design
We’ve all heard of scaffolding – used to support people and materials to aid in the maintenance and repair of structures using firm anchor points to...
Oracle OpenWorld Highlights – the Cloud, the Queues, and the Awesome
On the 16th/17th January I was lucky enough to get to attend Oracle Openworld. I’d never been before so didn’t know what to expect, nor a clue about...
Santa chooses an Azure hybrid cloud to support Digital Transformation
CASE STUDY ORGANISATION: Santa & the Elves Ltd SECTOR: Not for Profit Digital now spans across the entire organisation,...