What is Azure Dedicated Host?
Dedicated Host is a new service that provides you with a single-tenant-host to run your workloads on. Or to phrase that more simply, your very own physical server in an Azure data centre....
Posts by Chris Walden
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Azure Sentinel – Where to start?
First announced back in late February, Azure Sentinel is the first cloud-native SIEM (security information and event management) service from a major provider....
How to Optimise Your Azure Spending
Chris Rhodes, Senior Training Instructor at IT Masterclasses, takes a look at some of the ways you can optimise the way you work to bring down the cost of the cloud....
DevOps in Practice
In a modern agile world, it is important to deliver your product to the end user as quickly as possible, retrieve feedback, and then deliver a new version that includes all the requested features. To achieve this, you need DevOps....
What does today’s Microsoft mean for developers?
Tom Morgan explains why “This isn’t your Daddy’s Microsoft”....
Windows Virtual Desktop – First Thoughts, Part 2
Joe Carlyle takes a closer look at Windows Virtual Desktop, exploring the more advanced options of configuration that are currently available....
New certification: Azure Security Engineer Associate
Microsoft certified professionals earn 15% more on average than their peers according to The Business Value of IT Certification, a 2015 survey conducted by IDC and Microsoft. Since then, several other surveys have continued to prove the value of certification for both technology professionals as well as the companies they work for: According to a 2017 survey...
Microsoft Azure Security Center: Securing Cloud Resources
Everybody knows that IT security is important, but the word “security” is very broad and most of us don’t know where to start. Fortunately, Microsoft Azure Security Center was designed to help you monitor security across hybrid cloud workflows, as well as detect and react quickly to threats....
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance: A Completely Unofficial Primer
If you haven’t heard about Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, or have heard of it but aren’t quite sure what it’s all about, here’s Ian Moulster’s completely unofficial primer to get you off the ground....
Azure Cosmos DB: A Completely Unofficial Primer
Ian Moulster is back with a totally unofficial look at Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB, a service that is growing at a phenomenal rate as developers and data scientists across the world start taking advantage of its remarkable capabilities....