When sizing an enviroment in Microsoft Azure it is important to remember what kind of performance you can expect from the different virtual machine instance types in Azure, because there are alot of different aspects you need to think about when setting up virtual machines. Now by default there are different instance types, which defines […]
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So lately a lot HCI vendors in the market have stated in their marketing campaigns that they bring all the benefits of the cloud to on-premises solutions. Some have also states that they make on-premises cool again. A lot of companies these days are evaluating the benefits that the cloud could bring to their enterprises
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Earlier last week it was announced that Azure Stack will be deliverd as a turnkey solution duing 2017 via Dell, HPE and Lenovo systems. Now this came as a disappointment to many that they now could not be able to run Azure Stack on their existing hardware, since many have started to look forward to
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Citrix has recently announced the public beta of a new cloud feature called NetScaler Gateway services. This feature is a Windows based NetScaler solution which allows remote access to a citrix enviroment using the windows server that has the cloud connector component installed. When setting up Citrix Cloud Apps services you need to install a
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So with the upcoming release of Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 there are alot of new enhancements announced coming this way! Restore workloads directly to Azure (This is a feature which I’ve blogged about previosly, but has gained alot of enhancements in this build! first of, no need to deploy an appliance in Azure this
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Last week, Citrix announced support for Microsoft Azure Resource Manager in XenDesktop. As of now this feature is only available in Citrix Cloud. Because Citrix has the common policy that features comes in Cloud first then on the on-premises deployment. Using Azure Resource manager the setup has been simplified alot! My lab is quite simple
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So after much back and forth now, I’m moved from WordPress which has been my provider for my blog since I’ve started blogging in 2012 but now I’ve decided like to many others that its time to move across to Microsoft Azure. Why did I decided to move it there, instead of other providers or
New site & New provider, welcome to Azure! Read More »
With the release of NetScaler 11.1 there was a new API module available which I haven’t seen before which was “install” API which allows us to handle upgrades/downgrades of NetScaler versions using the NITRO API. There isn’t so much about it on the docs yet, luckily I got some response from the NetScaler team on
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Remember back to the Windows XP/Vista days? Life was alot simple from a security perspective. Yeah we got virus and malware, yeah we got spyware and yeah we got malware like we have been used too for the last decade. What did Microsoft have to offer us in terms of protection and security mechanims? We
I’ve previosly blogged about setting up NMAS and setting up Netscaler CPX CPX here –> https://msandbu.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/setting-up-the-netscaler-cpx-load-balancing-on-a-ubuntu-docker-host-with-nginx/ Now with the upcoming features in NMAS one of the cool stuff is being able to manage and deploy CPX instances directly fron NMAS. All we need to do is configure the dockers hosts properly with remote Docker API.
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