Microsoft has always been heavily committed to the datacenter and has a large footprint with Hyper-V & System Center. If we dial the clock back five years, Microsoft released Azure Pack, which was their first big attempt at a complete integrated private cloud offering and which was meant as a private offering of Microsoft Azure. …
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The last weeks I’ve been involved with working on Goliath’s guide on troubleshooting and understanding the Citrix ICA & HDX stack, which can be found available for download here –> http://bit.ly/2o5v9me To be perfectly honest I did not contribute much, most has been done by the support team at Goliath and I did a small …
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This is a follow-up from my earlier blogpost around –> http://msandbu.org/security-aspects-when-moving-to-the-public-cloud/ and the purpose about this post is highlighting the security aspects on IaaS services. with IaaS we have the capabilities to provision a set of virtual machines and have different supporting services around it. The purpose of this post is going to be focusing …
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One of the cool things with Azure Resource Manager is that we can define central policies which can either be deployed to resource groups or entire subscriptions which can be used to for instance define policies that * We can only deploy to North and West Europe* We can only deploy Windows Server 2012 Datacenter …
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So the last couple of days I’ve been watching closely on the keynotes at #GoogleNext, where Google was showing alot of the new enhancements to their platform. So a couple of weeks back they also introduced a new relational database service which is geo syncronous as well called Spanner Now up until now Google has …
Announcements at Google Next 17 and price cut on IaaS Read More »
So this is based upon a session I had at Hackcon a couple of weeks back. There are more and more businesses moving or adopting public cloud one way or another, it can be SaaS, PaaS or traditional IaaS features to move their existing datacenter to the cloud. Now if we look at the cloud …
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One of the cool features introduced in TP3 is the ability to do marketplace syndication between AzureStack and the public Azure marketplace. This allows us to provide all the different services and images in the public Azure marketplace trough AzureStack. You need to register your AzureStack deployment with an active Azure Subscription first in order …
Setting up Marketplace Syndication in Azure Stack TP3 Read More »
There is alot of interest around Citrix these days with the upcoming releases with XenDesktop Essentials and XenApp Essentials, and also with all the investments in the latest release with 7.13 as well. The purpose of this blog is to summurize the differences between the different offers that Citrix has now moving forward and of …
Citrix moving forward with Citrix Cloud and Essentials package Read More »
So finally Microsoft released a feature which allows us to troubleshoot networking issues in Azure! It provides us with multiple options to check on route paths, view list of Network Security groups to see which ACL’s take priority and such. And also it can be used to check traffic flow from one location to another! …
So had a case appear earlier today where we needed to scale out the NetScaler deployment within a container enviroment. More specific we needed a good way for NetScaler to automatic add new entries within a load balanced vserver when a container orchestration enviroment scaled out a stack with new containers. So in most cases …
