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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 Hat does not care" about the content of the workloads that run on its platform. Whether this comes as a surprise to you,...
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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, best-of-both-clouds experience. In a press release in June Microsoft announced a ‘cloud interoperability partnership...
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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 one-of-a-kind solution offers the best of OpenShift with 24x7 management and support from both Microsoft and Red Hat. This...
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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 PowerShell support in Azure Functions following numerous customer requests. In doing so Microsoft have made it possible to...
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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 security threats clearer and eliminate distractions. The solution provides intelligent security analytics at cloud scale for...
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 is a bit of an understatement. I hit my first hurdle almost instantly. With so many sessions on offer, and my FOMO...
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 the momentum once you've taken the first step? There are many advantages of adopting DevOps, for example increased...
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 has the scale of them. There persists for far too many companies, this fantasy that it will never happen to me, and rather...
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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 pre-release before the final release of Azure DevOps Server 2019, is now available. New features enable users to: Integrate...
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 are, how companies can get started on their cloud migration journey, and what common pitfalls to avoid. Izzi: What is...
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 get to areas that would be otherwise hard to get to. The term is well known in the construction world but why would a...
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 what the best ‘strategy’ was, more on that later! I diligently went through the entire agenda before I went and marked...
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, impacting everything from research to customer engagement and internal culture. We've gone in with both boots pushing on with...
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CloudStack[d] November Newsletter
MICROSOFT AZURE MICROSOFT LAUNCHES CONTAINER SUPPORT FOR AZURE COGNITIVE SERVICESThe container support will ‘allow users of Azure Cognitive Services’ pre-made models to deploy AI via Docker containers for edge devices, in the cloud, or in on-premise servers’. If...
Is Private Cloud Being Replaced By Azure & AWS?
I work for a Managed Services Provider (MSP). We own a UK-centric network, multiple datacentres and have many teams of highly skilled technical staff who manage customer systems which are hosted on our infrastructure. We have over 1000 customers and it's...
Infrastructure & Software Automation: When You Should Use It (And Why)
It’s no secret that I like automation, so much so that I wrote a book called Learn Ansible which, as you may have guessed, covers the basic usage Red Hats Ansible. While I try and automate as much as possible, there are a few basic rules I stick to and...
Serverless Computing London 2018 – The Low Down
Yesterday I attended Day One of Serverless Computing London. Unsurprisingly the theme of the day was ‘serverless’ and the general gist was serverless is here, and it’s here to stay. We explored the past, present and future of serverless, the security risks...
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CloudStack[d] October Newsletter
MICROSOFT AZURE HAPPY BIRTHDAY AZURE! We know, we know, Azure turned 8 in February, but 10 years ago at the Professional Developers Conference Microsoft announced the Community Technology preview of Azure. We definitely think that's worth celebrating! ...
Checklist for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups
As a Senior Database Consultant with over 20 years experience I've configured Always On more times than I can count and I find myself making the same recommendations over and over again. So, I did the sensible thing - I wrote myself an Always On checklist, and I'd...
Building a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Capability
Key points Building a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) capability requires changes in hiring, training, and organisation behaviour Adopting SRE needs enhanced trust across the IT organisation An SRE Managed Service can help organisations get the benefits of SRE...
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CloudStack[d] September Newsletter
MICROSOFT AZURE MICROSOFT LAUNCHES AZURE DEVOPS Microsoft’s well known Visual Studio Team Service (VSTS) has been rebranded to Azure DevOps, and the guy put forward by Microsoft to announce this slick name change... it just had to be Jamie Cool! The Director of...