Aidan Finn

Aidan Finn provides advice on choosing a Microsoft Azure billing plan, including pros and cons for enterprise agreements, direct billing, Azure is Open, cloud solution providers, along with a list of freebies to get your hands on.

Aidan Finn provides step-by-step instructions for deploying a DMZ in Microsoft Azure using Azure virtual networks.

Microsoft’s free Azure Backup Server (MABS) is a free on-premises backup server that will protect Microsoft workloads, such as Hyper-V, SQL Server, SharePoint, and more, by performing disk-to-disk-to-cloud backup.

This article will show you three designs, each building on the other, for a demilitarized zone (DMZ) or perimeter network for Internet facing n-tier applications based on Azure virtual machines and networking.

Aidan Finn describes a common WHEA error that can be found in Hyper-V and provides a workaround.

There’s lots of talk about cloud and what it can do for your business. But with so many offerings, even from one vendor such as Microsoft, it can be confusing to determine what’s the best way forward.

What’s in store for IT pros in the future?

Microsoft has launched a public preview of Azure Site Recovery in the Azure Portal.

Understanding the basics of a Microsoft Azure virtual machine makes it easier to not only design and price virtual machines, but also lends itself to troubleshooting machines that go wrong.

If you deploy a network service in an Azure virtual machine, then the default virtual network routing will need to be modified. This post will explain why you will need to use User Defined Routing.

Aidan Finn provides an overview of the process that Azure Backup currently uses to seed the first full backup using a secure couriered disk transfer.

Learn how to remotely test network connectivity to virtual machines in Microsoft Azure.