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Whitespace delivers one year of no unplanned downtime to its customers, thanks to Node4’s managed services

Aug 4, 2020 | Azure, Customer Stories, Press Releases

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?

Jul 6, 2020 | Data, Julian Boneham, Oracle

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...

A Glance at Azure Governance: 5 Areas to Focus on for Azure Adoption

Jun 26, 2020 | Azure, Cloud, Tim Rohde

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

Jun 15, 2020 | Azure, General, Martin Rothe

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

Jun 10, 2020 | Data, Julian Boneham, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, Oracle, SQL Server

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

Jun 9, 2020 | Ansible, Azure, DevOps, General, Russ McKendrick

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...

The Beginner’s Guide to Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework

May 13, 2020 | Azure, Cloud, Tim Rohde

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

May 12, 2020 | Azure, Cloud, Press Releases

The market-leading product suite is aligned to Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework, helping customers implement the business and technology...

Meet Our Azure Experts

May 4, 2020 | Azure, Cloud, DevOps, Rachael Lubinski

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...

Ansible and the Azure REST API

Apr 27, 2020 | Azure, DevOps, General, Russ McKendrick

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...

CloudStack[d] March 2020

Apr 1, 2020 | Azure, Izzi Fuller, Newsletter

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

Mar 30, 2020 | Azure, Martin Rothe, Security

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

Mar 24, 2020 | Data, Grahame Dyce

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

Jan 3, 2020 | Cloud, Data, DevOps, General, Izzi Fuller

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...

The Hidden Agenda of Cloud Architecture

Oct 16, 2019 | Ansible, Azure, Cloud, DevOps, GitHub, Jared Moore

The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 17.5% in 2019 to total £170 billion, up from £144.8 billion in 2018*. This is...

Top Tips for Planning an Internal DevOps Day

Oct 14, 2019 | Colin Silcock, DevOps, Events

So, you want to run an internal DevOps Day but not sure where to start? Back in May 2019 I was faced with the same problem. I knew what...

Key Takeaways from the Red Hat EMEA Partner Conference 2019

Jul 11, 2019 | Containers, DevOps, Piotr Gbyliczek, Red Hat

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...

CloudStack[d] June Newsletter

Jul 1, 2019 | Izzi Fuller, Newsletter

MICROSOFT AZURE INTERCONNECTING MICROSOFT AZURE AND ORACLE CLOUD Microsoft and Oracle have partnered up to deliver a highly-optimised,...

CloudStack[d] May Newsletter

Jun 1, 2019 | Izzi Fuller, Newsletter

MICROSOFT AZURE GENERALLY AVAILABLE: AZURE RED HAT OPENSHIFT Azure Red Hat OpenShift was announced last year at Red Hat Summit 2018. The...

CloudStack[d] April Newsletter

May 2, 2019 | Izzi Fuller, Newsletter

MICROSOFT AZURE THE TIME HAS COME FOR SERVERLESS AUTOMATION IN AZURE FUNCTIONS In April Microsoft announced the preview release of...

CloudStack[d] March Newsletter

Apr 1, 2019 | Izzi Fuller, 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

Mar 5, 2019 | Azure, Cloud, Data, Events

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...

The Importance of Scaffolding in Azure Cloud Design

Jan 23, 2019 | Azure, Cloud, Jared Moore

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

Jan 21, 2019 | Cloud, Events, Kate Gawron, Oracle

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...