Aidan Finn

Aidan Finn explains what Microsoft’s General Purpose v2 (GPv2) storage account is and how this is related to the general availability of tiered blob storage.

Aidan Finn compares and contrasts the two options for deploying SQL Server in Microsoft Azure, Azure SQL, and SQL Server running in a virtual machine.

Aidan Finn discusses what the recent GA of system state protection by Azure Backup means for you and shows how to add system state to MARS agent backup policy.

Aidan Finn grades his predictions on what would happen with Hyper-V and Microsoft cloud computing in the year of 2017.

Aidan Finn discusses how to estimate your consumption using the public Azure pricing calculator.

In this “how to” post, Aidan Finn shows you how to use Azure Automation to scale up (increase) or scale down (decrease) the size of an Azure virtual machine.

Aidan Finn explains why using FTP isn’t the best way to get your code into an Azure web app and how you can integrate your code management solution into Azure web apps for direct delivery without using FTP.

Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft’s launch of a new version of the F-Series virtual machines aimed at providing Xeon performance for application servers in Azure.

Aidan Finn shows you how you can upload your web content to an Azure web app using FTP.

Aidan Finn explains the role of web app deployment slots in Azure and how to use them.

Aidan Finn shows you how to create a new web app using Azure App Services, the PaaS alternative to running web services on virtual machines.

Microsoft and Cray have announced a partnership that will bring physical Cray supercomputers to the Azure cloud.