Recap: 5 Key Takeaways from our Lighthouse Event
Another successful Lighthouse event is in the books. On July 13th, we continued our quarterly event series with an eventful evening of speakers, music, food, and intelligent conversation about today’s
Get cloud security and compliance right with a DevSecOps playbook
Recent agile development trends combined with the availability of IT infrastructure and deployment automation have changed how software is delivered. Billed as a movement, or even a methodology, the term
UBS moves it’s global risk management platform to Microsoft Azure to improve compliance
Microsoft has been on a tear as of late, growing it’s Azure cloud business and successfully flipping it’s biggest customers over to it’s global cloud platform. One of the most
5 Things Your Ops Teams Should Be Doing In Azure (But Many Aren’t)
Most operations teams have a lot on their plate. Usually they have primary responsibilities that includes many of their company’s core IT functions – and often the Azure presence is
The only provider to achieve the Pentagon’s highest cloud security rating, Azure impresses on security
Not everyone needs the security and compliance of the Department of Defense (DoD) but with enterprise cloud adoption at a fever pitch , it’s nice to know that the Pentagon
Azure makes running VMs a lot more like PaaS than it used to be
As we help companies move more and more workloads to Azure, something we constantly hear is the strong desire to use PaaS, but for one reason or another, VM’s end
New Managed Disks feature is a welcome enhancement to Azure Storage
Microsoft’s recent announcement of Managed Disks is a welcome addition for anyone who manages IaaS environments on Azure. Previously, when you wanted to deploy a virtual machine (VM) it had
Deploy an Azure VM from a custom image using ARM templates
Deploy an Azure VM from a custom image using ARM templates Most of the companies we work with need to be able to build Azure VMs from custom OS images.
Change controls are key to enterprise cloud success
The conventional wisdom about enterprise cloud adoption has always been that big companies are too big and too security conscious (paranoid?) to use the public cloud. No matter the cheap
Is a DevOps strategy a prerequisite for IT transformation?
Earlier this week I was fortunate enough to speak on a panel at AIM Infotec on the topic of IT transformation. My role on the panel was to comment on
