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Aidan Finn, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), has been working in IT since 1996. He has worked as a consultant and administrator for the likes of Innofactor Norway, Amdahl DMR, Fujitsu, Barclays and Hypo Real Estate Bank International where he dealt with large and complex IT infrastructures and MicroWarehouse Ltd. where he worked with Microsoft partners in the small/medium business space.

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What is Standard SSD Managed Disks?

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In this post, Aidan explains what Standard SSD Managed Disks is and how you can utilize the service.

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What is Azure Public IP Address Prefix?

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan explains what the new Public IP Address preview Azure feature offers customers of Microsoft’s cloud service.

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What is Azure Front Door?

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan details another surprise service announcement from Microsoft Ignite, Azure Front Door, answering what this thing is, and dealing with the fear of “version 1.0”.

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Changes to Azure Germany Operations

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft recently announced the opening dates of the two new Azure regions in Germany, and the freezing of the Azure Germany sovereign regions.

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What is Azure Firewall

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan details Azure Firewall, a cloud-scale firewall service that was made generally available at the recent Microsoft Ignite conference.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – September 2018 Edition

Last Update: Jul 04, 2025

Septemeber was full of Azure announcements from Ignite, Aidan breaks all the news down so that it is easier to digest.

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Microsoft Ignite 2018 – Azure Management And Governance News

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan discusses some of the great news about managing and ensuring governance in Microsoft Azure that was shared at the Ignite conference this week.

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Microsoft Ignite 2018 – Azure Miscellaneous News

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan shares the latest information that I have on various Azure announcements that don’t easily fit into other categories.

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Microsoft Ignite 2018  – Azure Storage News

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

This week at Ignite, Microsoft has announced a sizeable amount of data storage news and Aidan breaks it all down for easy consumption.

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Microsoft Ignite 2018 – Azure Networking News

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

There was quite a bit of networking news from Ignite and Aidan breaks it down for you to digest.

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Microsoft Ignite 2018  – Azure Virtual Machines News

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan breaks down all the Azure Virtual Machine news from Microsoft’s Ignite conference.

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Understanding Application Security Groups in the Azure Portal

Last Update: May 08, 2025

Aidan shows you how to deploy application security groups to create granular (per-NIC) network security group rules in the Azure Portal.

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