Summary of Azure IaaS and Azure Local updates for April 2026, including new regions, Premium SSD v2 availability, and Ephemeral OS Disk preview.
Practical guide applying Azure Well-Architected Framework Security pillar principles to real IaaS/hybrid architectures for improved resilience and reduced blast radius.
Microsoft's latest Azure IaaS updates: new AMD & Intel VM series, confidential computing expansion, and performance improvements.
Microsoft's latest Azure IaaS and Azure Local updates for Jan 2026, covering AI governance, networking, and storage enhancements.
Microsoft's latest Azure IaaS and Azure Local updates for Jan 2026, covering AI datacenter strategy, Kubernetes pricing, and storage expansions.
Microsoft's Azure IaaS and Azure Local updates for late Dec 2025, covering AI platform leadership, storage replication, and ransomware protection.
Summary of recent Azure IaaS and Azure Local updates, including new availability zones, networking changes, and security/compliance features.
Microsoft's latest Azure IaaS & Azure Local updates for Nov 2025: RHEL reservations, VM vCore customization, and shared capacity reservations.
Microsoft's latest Azure IaaS and Azure Local updates for October 2025, covering new features, VM retirements, and firewall enhancements.
Azure Local Arc Gateway is now GA, providing a centralized HTTPS egress point for Azure Local workloads, simplifying security and reducing endpoints.
A technical guide on setting up and analyzing DNS within Azure IaaS, including creating a lab with VMs and using Wireshark to inspect DNS traffic.
Explores challenges and solutions for setting up Azure alerts at scale, focusing on Log Analytics and host platform metrics for IaaS VMs.
A guide to performing an in-place upgrade of Windows Server 2022 on an Azure VM, including warnings and step-by-step commands.
A guide to using Azure Network Watcher's Connection Monitor tool to track and troubleshoot VM network connections, latency, and availability.
Explains unexpected 'shakes' or health events in Azure VM Availability Groups, covering CPU, host, and IO contention issues.
Final part of a series comparing Azure shared storage options, summarizing pros, cons, and workload patterns.
Announcing a SQLBits 2020 workshop on migrating, optimizing, and running SQL Server workloads on Azure Virtual Machines.
An overview of cloud technology, covering its evolution from traditional infrastructure, key definitions, deployment models, and service models like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
Analyzes OpenStack's rapid growth from a few IaaS projects to a vast ecosystem of 54 teams, highlighting the tensions between its old integrated model and new 'big tent' approach.
Explains how to optimize SQL Server performance and reduce costs on Microsoft Azure using flexible IaaS configurations and storage strategies.
