For the last year or so I’ve been working on a new book project. Given the last few years, I’ve been working a lot with customers that have been impacted by ransomware or wanted to implement more countermeasures. Therefore, last year I pitched my idea to Packt Publishing about my book idea and they were […]
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Ever gotten this error message when trying to update a resource in Azure? We recently encountered this in one environment where we had multiple virtual machines within a single subscription, and we couldn’t perform any operations on the VMs. Within Azure, there are different limits within a subscription on how many API calls you can
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A Couple of days ago, the people at OpenAI released ChatGPT which is an AI-based system optimized for dialogue. The service is available for free preview here –> ChatGPT (openai.com) The service itself uses large language models trained by OpenAI and uses deep learning to generate natural language text based on the input. The service has support for
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For the last decade, I’ve worked a lot with building virtual apps and desktops from a lot of different providers, going from Citrix, VMware, Microsoft, and even old 2X and Dell vWorkspace even… The focus was always providing in most cases a centralized secure workspace for end-users, which needed to access their applications whether it be
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One of the things that we have been trying to solve repeatedly is a way to provide self-service mechanisms for developers when it comes to building public cloud services. Where we want to provide developers with a predefined service catalog that contains different packaged services or even a full environment that they can order on-demand.
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One of the compelling reasons of using PaaS services in the Public Cloud, is the ease of management- and lowering the complexity of use. Such as with the use of Database Services, where you no longer need to manage a complex cluster of machines that are responsible for running one of the most heavy workloads –
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Earlier today a new Security Vulnerability was disclosed in the popular OpenSSL (libssl) Library (affecting products using OpenSSL 3.0.0-3.0.6.) which affects most software companies in the world. The OpenSSL team released an updated version of the library today 3.0.7. OpenSSL CVE-2022-3602 (RCE) and CVE-2022-3786 (DOS) published earlier today and was fixed in the release 3.0.7 NOTE:
Security Vulnerability in OpenSSL CVE-2022-3602 (RCE) and CVE-2022-3786 (DOS) Read More »
Microsoft has recently released Premium SSD P2 Disk. This new feature is highlighting a change in the underlying architecture of the storage service in Azure. Before this v2 release, the performance of a disk was always associated with the size of the disk. With the v2 release, there are numerous improvements to the disk service.
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Last week during Ignite 2022, Microsoft released a public preview of a new DDoS feature called IP-based protection which is aimed at protecting DDoS attacks on layer 4 (namely TCP SYN Flood attacks) When looking at the statistics for Q3 this year from the blog from Cloudflare, the most predominant form of DDoS attacks is
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Recently with working with a customer, we wanted to set up Azure Container Apps with Volume Mounts using CI/CD with Terraform. Until now, the only option has been to configure it using Azure CLI. However! last week Microsoft introduced some new part of the API that allows us to manage this using Azure Resource Manager
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