Ned Bellavance — Veteran IT professional and founder of Ned in the Cloud, creating courses, podcasts, and technical content on cloud and infrastructure.
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A technical comparison of Azure NetApp Files performance tiers against other storage options for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) workloads.
Explains Azure AD Service Principals, their relationship to application objects, and how to create them for automation and permissions.
Analysis of Microsoft's rumored 'Lite OS' and its potential to replace Windows for consumers, focusing on Microsoft's shift to services.
Pure Storage's approach to cloud-native storage, focusing on pay-as-you-go pricing, elastic capacity, and API-driven management.
A delegate's analysis of Rubrik's Cloud Field Day 5 presentation, focusing on their Polaris platform and its potential beyond ransomware detection.
An analysis of Sysdig's cloud-native monitoring solution, which uses eBPF for container security and performance insights.
The Day Two Cloud podcast moves to its own dedicated channel, focusing on operating cloud infrastructure beyond initial deployment.
A delegate previews Cloud Field Day 5, focusing on VMware's AWS integration and the real-world practicality of VMware Cloud on AWS.
A delegate previews Sysdig's container monitoring and security platform ahead of a Cloud Field Day event, analyzing its integration with cloud and Kubernetes.
A delegate previews Datrium's cloud and on-premises data management solutions ahead of a Cloud Field Day presentation.
A delegate previews Kemp's cloud load balancing solutions ahead of Cloud Field Day 5, analyzing their integration with Azure Stack and multi-cloud.
An analysis of Cohesity's evolution from a backup appliance vendor to a data aggregator, using aggregation theory to explain its cloud strategy.
A delegate previews NGINX's role in cloud computing ahead of Cloud Field Day, covering its products and recent acquisition by F5.
A technical guide on scaling a Kubernetes cluster deployed on Azure Stack, covering the transition from acs-engine to aks-engine and manual scaling steps.
A guide to using PowerShell to automate batch transcription of audio files with the Azure Speech Service REST API.
Explains the differences between Azure Stack's Kubernetes Cluster template and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), detailing its deployment and management.
Troubleshooting guide for a failed Kubernetes cluster deployment on Azure Stack, focusing on a common service principal permission error.
Announcing the launch of the Day Two Cloud podcast, focusing on advanced cloud operations, migrations, and management topics.
A technical guide on configuring an Azure VM to authenticate with HashiCorp Vault using Azure AD, retrieving secrets via API.
A technical guide on configuring HashiCorp Vault to authenticate using Azure Active Directory and Managed Service Identity.
