Schedule the Start of a VM in Azure
Background: I used to carry my own personal laptop all around the place, customers, conferences, libraries, etc. In order to have my tool of choice for work. As things have… Read More →
Choosing the Right Cloud Migration Strategy
In 2011 Gartner published 5 migration strategies. Eight years later let’s see how valid they still are and where are we in terms of evolution: 1. Rehost: The infamous “lift… Read More →
Understanding Azure Reserved Instances
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- by Ana Gabriela Hernandez
If you are consuming cloud resources you’re probably facing some challenges such as cost management, optimization and confidence on how spending is happening. Have you ever faced any surprising cost… Read More →
Azure Traffic Manager for Multi Cloud Vendor endpoints
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- by Roberto Lopez
Some customers and organization talk about having a multi-cloud environment in order to not be locked and also to provide redundancy and continuity in case of disaster with any of… Read More →
What Cloud Computing is
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- by Roberto Lopez
It is normal for different people to have different understandings of what Cloud Computing is. I will detail the basics below: Definition According to the The National Institute of Technology… Read More →
Let’s Encrypt Certificates on the Azure Application Gateway
The Security Principles Quoting from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3) : The Web’s trustworthiness has become critical to its success Furthermore, confidentiality — while arguably not always strictly necessary… Read More →
Running the Linux Subsystem inside an Azure Windows 10 VM
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- by Roberto Lopez
What is it? The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run Linux environments — including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications — directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of… Read More →
Single Sign-on using Azure AD for On-Premise Dynamics NAV
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- by Roberto Lopez
Background I was working on a Design/Implementation for Dynamics NAV to be used as Payroll and Human Resources system. The customer originally didn’t think about integrating it with Azure… Read More →
Updating the timezone of a CentOS VM in Azure
Just the quick manual process of updating the Kernel for a Centos VM running on Azure. If created from the portal a VM will have the UTC time zone by… Read More →
Upgrading the Kernel of a Linux VM hosted in Azure
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- by Roberto Lopez
The Background I’m running a CentOS Linux VM on Azure in the Australia East Region (Sydney) and I need to access a CIFS (Common Internet File System) share in the… Read More →