INSIGHTS
Ideas, perspectives and lessons from the field.
I write about the evolution of enterprise technology — from hybrid cloud, infrastructure and architecture to governance, security, resilience and AI — with a focus on what changes, why it matters and how it should influence the decisions we make.
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The New Azure Arc Solution for Efficient Management of Multicloud Environments
Read article →: The New Azure Arc Solution for Efficient Management of Multicloud EnvironmentsCompanies are increasingly adopting a multicloud approach to leverage the specific advantages offered by various cloud service providers. This strategy helps avoid vendor lock-in, improve resilience, and optimize costs by utilizing the best offers available on the market. However, managing resources distributed across multiple cloud platforms presents significant challenges, especially regarding inventory management, reporting, analysis,…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Stack: announcements and updates (July 2024 – Weeks: 27 and 28)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Stack: announcements and updates (July 2024 – Weeks: 27 and 28)This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Stack, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure Compute Retirement: Azure Cloud Services Guest OS Families 2, 3, and 4 In July 2024, Azure announced the upcoming retirement of Guest…
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Announcing my eighth Microsoft MVP Award in Cloud and Datacenter Management
Read article →: Announcing my eighth Microsoft MVP Award in Cloud and Datacenter ManagementHey everyone, I’m beyond excited to share some fantastic news with you all – I’ve just received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the eighth year in a row in the Cloud and Datacenter Management category! What is the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award? For those who might not know, the Microsoft MVP…
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Azure Arc Site Manager: the solution for managing and governing on-premises IT resources
Read article →: Azure Arc Site Manager: the solution for managing and governing on-premises IT resourcesAzure Arc Site Manager is an innovative solution for system administrators, designed to offer centralized management of IT resources, associating them with the physical or logical locations of customer infrastructures and facilitating governance of these resources. This tool simplifies connection monitoring, alert management, and resource update statuses, enabling administrators to apply fixes and updates uniformly…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Stack: announcements and updates (June 2024 – Weeks: 25 and 26)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Stack: announcements and updates (June 2024 – Weeks: 25 and 26)This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Stack, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure Compute Upgrade Policies for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration (preview) Azure has introduced public preview support for upgrade policies in…
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Azure Management services: what’s new in June 2024
Read article →: Azure Management services: what’s new in June 2024This month, Microsoft introduced a series of updates related to Azure management services. Through this series of monthly articles, we aim to provide an overview of the most relevant updates. Our goal is to keep you constantly informed about these developments, providing you with essential information to explore these topics further. The following diagram shows…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Stack: announcements and updates (June 2024 – Weeks: 23 and 24)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Stack: announcements and updates (June 2024 – Weeks: 23 and 24)This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Stack, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure Compute Azure VMware Solution: Microsoft and Broadcom to support license portability for VMware Cloud Foundation Microsoft and Broadcom are expanding their partnership to…
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Hyper-V: Evolution, Current Innovations, and Future Developments
Read article →: Hyper-V: Evolution, Current Innovations, and Future DevelopmentsSince the first release of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008, Microsoft has never ceased innovating this virtualization solution, and it has no intention of stopping. Hyper-V represents a strategic technology for Microsoft, being widely used across various areas of the IT ecosystem: from Windows Server to Microsoft Azure, from Azure Stack HCI to Windows clients…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Stack: announcements and updates (June 2024 – Weeks: 21 and 22)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Stack: announcements and updates (June 2024 – Weeks: 21 and 22)This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Stack, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General RISE with SAP is Available on ItalyNorth Azure Region RISE with SAP, a comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service offering, is now accessible in the…