CLOUDY MUSINGS

If you're managing multiple Log Analytics workspaces in Azure Monitor (like one of my customers recently), keeping track of log ingestion...

In my presales role at AHEAD, I focus on the "art of the possible" in customer conversations. We often analyze customers' cloud storage...

Azure Policy allows you to create, assign, and manage policies in Azure (that definition feels a little like one of those awful...

This post required a revision based upon how I originally positioned AWS Reserved Instances. I'm still learning AWS, so I had some During...

I had a colleague at Microsoft (who's not in identity) mention that it's confusing when someone looks in the Entra portal or Azure Active...

When it comes to Azure, Azure Active Directory is usually one of the easiest services to spin up quickly. Overall, integration into the...

With Windows 2012 R2 reaching end of support on October 23, 2023, it's (unfortunately) time to think about transitioning workloads off of...

As you build more with code in Azure, knowing the API versions to lean on is helpful. If you use ARM Snippets in Visual Studio Code or...

Now that I have your attention, know I've started digging into Bicep. It only makes sense, as I'm pretty deep into ARM Templates and...

So in my quest of spreading knowledge about how to build/deploy/configure Azure native monitoring for customers and the broader...

Folks! I have decided to put up a show on YouTube that will hopefully help out related to cloud adoption and ultimately demystifying...

So far, this series has consisted of the previous blog posts: Log Analytics Design and Access Create Inventory of Existing Log Analytics...

Seeing cloud adoption gain traction over the years has always put a smile on my face. Customers have made some successful migrations and...

In the last 2 years, an entirely new permissions and access model came to Log Analytics. Prior to these permission changes, enterprises...

The VMware vExpert designation is an award is given to individuals who have significantly contributed to the community of VMware users...

One of the things I've enjoyed over the last almost 5 years of all Azure all the time is digging deep into code...specifically ARM...

I know a lot of us are using more command line based tools these days. Azure PowerShell is one of the tools I tend to use often if I need...

As someone who is writing more and more code, I have been trying to embrace Visual Studio Code (VS Code) over Visual Studio (I can hear...

With my head in the cloud the last almost 5 years, it may seem like sort of an anti-pattern to even think about VMware running on Azure,...

Welcome to a little slice of my crazy and bizarre world! Well hello there! If you've followed anything I've done online over the last...