by sebmatthews | Dec 6, 2016 | Azure, Cloud, Microsoft, Office 365
This last few days has been interesting. One of my newer business ventures (extaCloud) had its first global summit (sounds grand, right?) and I’ve been locked in a hotel suite in New York working through use cases for a product we’re launching early next...
by sebmatthews | Sep 7, 2016 | Azure, Cloud, Microsoft, Office 365
It’s been a while in the making, but finally today in a blog post here, Microsoft have announce availability of 2 new UK Office 365 datacentres. For a while now, customers in the UK with concerns over sovereignty of their data have been mumbling about the lack...
by sebmatthews | Sep 1, 2016 | Azure, Cloud, Microsoft
So the onward march of progress in Azure took a surprising turn today when an out of the blue announcement was made on the Enterprise Mobility and Security Blog (see post here) announcing the end (or “winding down”) of Azure RemoteApp, Microsoft’s...
by sebmatthews | Mar 25, 2016 | Azure, Cloud, PowerShell
If you’re looking for a way to snapshot Azure VMs you will probably have established that unlike pureplay virtualisation (such as Hyper-V or ESXi on-premises) there is no simple snapshot option for a Azure VMs. It’s possible that Microsoft might add this...
by sebmatthews | Sep 2, 2015 | Azure, PowerShell
Today’s PowerShell corner is brought to you in association with “Saving Money on Azure Storage Inc.” an imaginary consulting company, headquartered in Helsinki, that specialises in ensuring you don’t spend too much on Azure storage when it...
by sebmatthews | Aug 18, 2015 | Azure, Cloud
The key to the implementation of successful Cloud scale solutions is in the delivery of services that can operate effectively, efficiently and when required, independently. Containers provide a level of process and service isolation that has historically been neither...