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Nashville Global Azure 2020
The April 25th, 2020 Global Azure event in Nashville has been cancelled! Global Azure events all over the world have been cancelled due to the Covid-19 virus. (See https://globalazure.net/Blog/Post/190/Global-Azure-and-COVID-19) Because of this we will not be holding our April 25th … Continue reading
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Azure Governance: The Key to Azure Success
A while back I did a blog post titled: “Is Azure Adoption Too Easy”. That title raised a few eyebrows. Let me be perfectly clear; I have been working with Azure since before it was called Azure. I discovered it … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Cloud Computing, Governance, Microsoft Azure, User Groups, Windows Azure
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Building a Rational Microsoft Azure Network Architecture
In a previous blog post Is Azure Adoption “Too Easy? I discussed how it is very easy (perhaps too easy) to get into Azure without a well-thought-out network architecture and a good plan. We cannot fault Microsoft for making it … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Cloud, Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, Windows Azure
Tagged Architecture, Automation, Azure, Networking
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The Nashvill 2018 Global Azure Bootcamp is History
On Saturday April 21st we held the Nashville Edition of the 2018 Global Azure Bootcamp. The event was held at Microsoft in Nashville and we had approximately 60 attendees. As you can see from the agenda (above) we had 17 … Continue reading
Azure: What to use When?
On August 17, 2017 I presented on the topic of Azure: What to use When? To the Nashville Microsoft Azure Users Group. For those of you who know me you know that I founded this group four years ago with … Continue reading
What is your Azure Maturity Level?
Figure 1 – The Azure Maturity Model The Azure Maturity Model is based on the Cloud Maturity Model developed by the Open Data Center Alliance. Its purpose is to help you determine where you stand in your ability to adopt … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Cloud Computing, Governance, Microsoft Azure, Windows Azure
Tagged Azure, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Governance
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A Cloud is a Cloud is a Cloud?
It never fails to amaze me that it seems like every vendor in the industry, every hosting company and every virtualization or database vendor that puts something in one of the Public Clouds is quick to claim that “They have … Continue reading
Tale of Two Clouds: A Feature Comparison of Azure and AWS
Comparing Azure and AWS is a bit like comparing apples and oranges. Each platform has features that either duplicate or overlap with features of the other platform. In reality the focus needs to be on solving the business problem … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Azure, Windows Azure
Tagged aws, Azure
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The Future of Azure is Azure Stack!
I realize that the title above might be a bit controversial to some. In this blog post I will attempt to defend that position. The two diagrams above, taken from recent Microsoft public presentations, symbolically represent the components of Public … Continue reading
Posted in Azure Stack, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Azure, Windows Azure
Tagged Azure, Azure Stack
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Azure at //Build 2016
The dust has barely settled on //Build 2016; one, of the two premier annual Microsoft conferences: //Build and Ignite! For those of you who not aware of it these two conferences morphed from two earlier Microsoft conferences. //Build is the … Continue reading
Posted in Application Development, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Event, IaaS, Microsoft Azure, PaaS, Windows Azure
Tagged Azure; //Build;
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