The last 6 months I have been involved in numerous discussions related to virtualization and specifically related to “how do I move from A to B? what do I loose of functionality? what do I gain?”. Reason behind these discussions are often related to license cost and that their footprint within their own datacenter is …
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In a recent talk, I explored how Generative AI can aid us when working with IT security, going into the use-cases, some of the benefits and also something that you need to be cautious about . Here, I’ll summarize the key points and insights from the presentation. Generative AI originates from large pre-trained models designed …
How can Generative AI help us in terms of IT Security? Read More »
A while back I asked how to configure VM insights using Terraform. While DCR rules are well documented in Terraform docs and also how to associate them with virtual machines. However, VMInsights is a different beast. VM Insights provides a couple of things And also a neat set of logs to see Network Connections between …
After some issues with a deployment I wanted to describe some tips to troubleshoot this since most docs were useless. Here I am going to cover how to configure Syslog to forward logs to Azure Monitor Agent and ultimately send them to Microsoft Sentinel. Also address common troubleshooting steps, particularly how to manage disk space …
Azure Monitor Agent Syslog forwarding to Sentinel Troubleshooting and Disk usage Read More »
With the release of Microsoft Private Access earlier this month, I wanted to test it a bit further to verify what kind of performance/bandwith it can handle. Therefore I decided to set up a test enviroment in Microsoft Azure consists of multiple virtual networks within the same region close to the PoP (Point of Presence) …
Even if many of us are in vacation mode, it is not exactly quiet around Generativ AI. Therefore I wanted to write a little update on what is happening on this front. From what is happening from the cloud providers, LLM companies, ecosystem and what the future holds. Firstly, there is a lot of development …
Generative AI – Summer Edition 2024 – What´s new? Read More »
Earlier today, companies around the world woke up to multiple of their Windows hosts suffering from BSOD, the culprit? an Update to CrowdStrike Falcon Sensors. Causing services around the world to go down. Many services are suffering because of this. Microsoft IT outage latest: Airports, businesses and broadcasters including Sky News experiencing issues worldwide | …
BSOD because of CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor and workaround Read More »
With the evolution of personal Generative AI and the introduction of Small Language Models (SLMs) that can now be run locally on personal devices, there are numerous options for running Generative AI on your own hardware. Tools like Ollama, vLLM, and LMStudio, along with various models such as Codestral, Phi-3, LLaMA3, and Google Gemma, are …
I wanted to write this blog post as a follow-up to the EUC conference in Norway last week. This was the first EUC conference ever held in Norway, where I delivered the keynote on the future of the workplace and client environments. I’d like to share my thoughts on what the future might look like. …
While there has been a lot of focus on Windows Recall the last week about the security issues (which I will get back to later in this article) however there are few of the articles that actually describe how the technology actually works, therefore I wanted to use this article to write down my current …
