A While back Microsoft announced a new Load balancing tier in Microsoft Azure called Azure load balancer standard, which is a new SKU of the existing load balancing service in Azure, which is still in preview when I’m writing this blogpost. Azure provides different load balancing solutions, where we have Application Gateway (provides layer 7 …
In my previous blog post I did a short overview of the different cloud vendors, a bit about their focus areas and also a bit about strengths and weaknesses. The blogpost can be found here –>http://bit.ly/2CrBgZA .In this post I want to focus more on IaaS and the offerings surrounding it, first I want describe …
Cloud Wars – IBM vs Microsoft vs Google vs Amazon IaaS Read More »
The last couple of weeks I have been working with VMware Horizon Cloud for Microsoft Azure, and tesing the bits and pieces about the platform, and especially I’ve been looking at how it compares against Citrix Cloud in general. Therefore I decided to write this blog post to maybe enlighten how it differs in terms …
Comparison between Horizon Cloud and Citrix Cloud on Azure Read More »
It has been a busy last month but finally I have some news to share. Lastly I have been working almost full time on Azure, AWS & GCP. As part of that experience I also get a lot of information about the different cloud providers, especially on the strenghts and weaknesses of each vendor. I …
Public Cloud Comparison on GCP, AWS, Azure and IBM. Read More »
One of the things that you need to remember to have when moving to the public cloud is to do backup of your stateful virtual machines since this is not something that is included as part of the basic service that cloud platforms provide (Azure, Google and Amazon) for instance. NB: Azure has an Backup …
Creating Azure ARM template with Veeam Agent unattended setup Read More »
This is a recap of the webinar me and a fellow CTP Dave Bretty, had earlier today on MYCUGC “Delivering and Optimizing Citrix from Microsoft Azure” since the webinar itself only covered a big overview of the big picture I decided to do some more work in-depth of the webinar. So therefore I’ve started on …
Running and optimizing Citrix in Microsoft Azure Read More »
At Citrix Synergy myself and Phillip Jones https://twitter.com/P2Vme has a presentation at the NVIDIA Booth on the first day of the conference where we talked about different deployment scenarioes for NVIDIA GRID both for HCI (Which Phillip covered) and in Cloud which I talked about. This also something which I discussed at the hot topics …
Considering GPU in the Cloud for VDI deployments? Not so fast… Read More »
So this is a follow-up on my previous blogpost on Security Aspects on public cloud –> http://msandbu.org/security-aspects-when-moving-to-the-public-cloud-iaas/ in this blog post I will focus more on what security aspects you ned to think about when considering using platform services. Platform services comes in different shapes and colours, but in the core essence you have a …
Security aspects when moving to the public cloud – PaaS Read More »
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. …
What is Azure Stack and what is the architecture? Read More »
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 …
Security aspects when moving to the public cloud – IaaS Read More »
