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

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

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

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

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

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

5 reasons why Azure Site Recovery is the best place to start your migration to Azure

For larger companies, the hardest part about looking at using Azure is picking a good place to start. Conventional wisdom has been to start with

Linux on Azure not only isn’t an after-thought, it’s a first-class citizen

Microsoft isn’t joking when they say they love Linux.  If you’ve been in technology for a while then this whole new open Microsoft that’s progressive

Azure Site Recovery for VMware disaster recovery just got a lot easier (and cheaper)

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is an extremely powerful disaster recovery (DR) service that’s built into Microsoft Azure. Unlike Azure Backup, which is very inexpensive and

FAQ: Achieving compliance with newly released Azure disk encryption for Windows and Linux

Early this year, we wrote about encryption-at-rest as part of our security series. Traditionally, encryption-at-rest, or disk encryption as we’ll refer to it going forward,