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Azure News December 2021
Announcing SQL Server 2022 preview In November Microsoft announced the preview of SQL Server 2022, the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet,...
3 Reasons Why EV Infrastructure Must Be Robust
With the UK targeted to phase out ICE cars by 2035, the electric future of transport is well and truly underway. But despite the increased foothold...
Azure News November 2021
What’s new in Azure Virtual Desktop? Every month Microsoft update Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) to ensure the best user experience. Some of the latest...
Azure News October 2021
What’s new in Azure Virtual Desktop? Every month Microsoft update Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) to ensure the best user experience. Some of the latest...
Terraform Azure Deployments
I have just finished working on a few large Terraform Azure deployments and thought I would stick a few notes down in a blog post in the hope that...
Tracking Costs in Terraform Using Infracost
In my last blog post I introduced a stage which executed Checkov to my Terraform Azure DevOps pipeline. This scanned the Terraform configuration and...
Azure News September 2021
Windows 11 preview is now available on Azure Virtual Desktop Azure Virtual Desktop has become a popular cloud VDI platform to run desktops and apps...
Azure News August 2021
Free extended security updates for Windows Server and SQL Server Last month Microsoft announced they were offering Extended Security Updates for...
The Emergence and Importance of the Modern Data Platform
Pretty much all IT related posts these days refer to the importance of data and how it’s “the new gold”. Whilst much of this may appear to be a...
Database as a Service (DBaaS) 101
Businesses have long turned to database managed services providers (MSPs) to help them keep their databases available and performant - and that’s...
Microsoft Azure 101
The Microsoft Azure cloud platform and its range of 200+ products and services have the potential to transform your business, take you steps ahead...
Azure News July 2021
Azure 101: The Beginner’s Guide to Azure The Microsoft Azure cloud platform and its range of 200+ products and services have the potential to...
Azure DevOps Terraform Pipeline with Checkov & Approvals
It’s been just over a year since I first posted about the Azure DevOps Terraform Pipeline I used to use, I say used to use because that pipeline is...
Azure News June 2021
Microsoft Build 2021 recap May 25th-27th brought us Microsoft Build where developers from around the world come together to hear about the latest...
Azure News May 2021
What's new in Windows Virtual Desktop? Every month Microsoft update Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) to ensure the best user experience. Some of the...
Preventx Adopts Node4 Public Cloud to Support Delivery of Sexual Health and Testing Services Across England
Preventx, the UK’s leading provider of digital sexual health services for the public sector, has migrated from its traditional server...
Azure DevOps Multi-Stage Pipelines
As I move into using Azure DevOps more and more, there is one thing which I really haven’t got on with and that is release pipelines. I didn’t like...
Azure News April 2021
N4Stack achieves Microsoft Azure Expert MSP status One of only nine UK organisations to receive the accreditation, we’re over the moon to announce...
N4Stack Achieves Microsoft Azure Expert MSP Status
Cloud-led digital transformation Managed Services Provider (MSP) Node4, has today announced it has been awarded Microsoft Azure Expert MSP status,...
Azure News March 2021
Save 30% on Windows Virtual Desktop computing costs Microsoft has announced a Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) offer that allows new customers to save...
Node4 infrastructure and database modernisation helps Loans2Go cement itself in the fintech industry
Node4, the cloud, data centre and communications solutions provider, has today announced that is has supplied Loans2Go with a modernised IT...
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...
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...
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...