Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Template Specs: Storing ARM templates on Azure Infrastructure as code is evolving in large steps to improve the way we build and manage cloud infrastructure. ARM templates... 04 October 2021 5 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs 10 things everyone needs to know about Azure Cost management 1 – Azure Hybrid Benefit Azure services related to servers and direct infrastructure reservation require software licenses, such as Windows... 27 September 2021 7 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Using Power BI to Analyse Azure Costs Azure Cost Management is in constant evolution to help manage the cost of services in the cloud. Microsoft provides the... 06 September 2021 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Using Power BI to Query Log Analytics Log Analytics is a basic tool for the entire Azure environment, I wrote about it before. The possibility to access... 24 May 2021 5 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure Static Web Apps: Bring Your Own Function (BYOF) Azure technologies evolve so fast sometimes we lose track of what’s happening. One day, a simple technology is created, on... 18 May 2021 4 min read
Robert Sheldon The Logical Data Warehouse – Towards a Single View of All the Data What is wrong with the Enterprise Data Warehouse? Quite a lot, it seems. By taking the narrow view that the... 09 November 2015 14 min read
Robert Sheldon OpenStack: The Good and Not-So-Good Bits OpenStack holds a great deal of promise as a cloud platform built on open standards, and has support from the... 03 September 2015 15 min read
Robert Sheldon Working with SQL Server data in Power BI Desktop What's the best way of providing self-service business intelligence (BI) to data that is held in on-premise SQL Server? Not,... 24 August 2015 24 min read
Robert Sheldon An Introduction to the OpenPOWER Foundation In a bid to challenge Intel's dominance of high performance computing environments, IBM have introduced OpenPOWER, a flexible open-source framework... 03 August 2015 12 min read
Robert Sheldon Microservices in Promise and Practice Are microservices the cure for the ague of monolithic applications, or do they bring their own problems with them that... 13 April 2015 18 min read
Robert Sheldon The Internet of Things: A New World Order? Was the marketing hook 'The Internet of Things' conjured up before the technical definition? Are we being persuaded to spend... 10 March 2015 15 min read
Robert Sheldon Application Containers For Cloud Computing Containers promise to make applications more portable and efficient. The technology, originally based on Linux's cgroups, provides a way of... 11 February 2015 12 min read
AWS Robert Sheldon in AWS Amazon’s Aurora: A Distributed SQL Database Alternative For MySQL Applications SQL-based distributed Cloud Relational databases aren't new, but Amazon's Aurora offers an alternative to SQL Azure, and, being MySQL-compatible, provides... 15 January 2015 13 min read
Jaap Wesselius Cloud Identities versus Federated Identities in Office 365 Identities, the 'accounts' by which Cloud and Web users identify themselves, are tricky to manage, and tiresome for the users.... 01 December 2014 8 min read
Robert Sheldon Stop Relying on Cloud File Stores as a Backup Strategy There is a growing assumption that Cloud file-storage services represent an ideal way of backing up files. It seems a... 22 October 2014 17 min read
Robert Sheldon Deleting Files in the Cloud The public perception is that, when something is deleted, it no longer exists. IT in general prefers the fuzzier idea... 23 September 2014 15 min read
Edward Elliott Improving the Quality of SQL Server Database Connections in the Cloud To access SQL Server from the client, you use TDS protocol over TCP. This is fine over reliable LANs but... 22 September 2014 20 min read
Robert Sheldon The Community Cloud The 'Community Cloud' sounds, on first impression, like marketing-speak for some untried novelty, but in fact it is already around,... 27 August 2014 15 min read
Jaap Wesselius Office 365 Essentials – Subscriptions and Licenses Should you be planning to move from Exchange to Office 365? If so, why? What sort of license should you... 08 August 2014 10 min read
Buck Woody Data Science Laboratory System – Distributed File Databases Distributed File Databases manage large amounts of unstructured or semi-structured data. They are designed on the principle of splitting up... 21 March 2014 15 min read
