Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and other Cloud Musings.
After a couple of weeks off-grid in a small Moroccan village (where the internet was charmingly unreliable), I returned to find Microsoft had made a major announcement that’s already rippling across the European cloud landscape. So in this episode of...
This week’s entry for Reaching for the Cloud slightly differs from the usual content I publish. It is unrelated to security or cloud strategy/technology and is more focused on a personal challenge or journey. About a week or so ago, someone made (probably a flippant) comment, indicating that they expect me to attain all the... Continue Reading →
As regular readers will know, I have posted on several elements of this topic previously, but I decided to wrap this up with a more holistic (I do dislike that word) view, based on my experience of working in this area for the past 15 years or so. What is Failure, or to put it... Continue Reading →
I had the good fortune to have lunch at the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport earlier in the week, which got me thinking about what happened to TWA and why there was still a branded hotel. I didn't get an answer to the latter, and several reasons were provided for TWA's eventual demise. Still, one... Continue Reading →
I was reading an article on The Stack a few weeks ago (https://www.thestack.technology/warren-buffetts-geico-repatriates-work-from-the-cloud-continues-ambitious-infrastructure-overhaul/), which was talking about their cloud journey, and more importantly about a recent decision to move some workloads back from the cloud to on-premises, the main reason provided in this article for the move was cost and complexity related to storage, and... Continue Reading →
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