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.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
In this post, Aidan explains what Standard SSD Managed Disks is and how you can utilize the service.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Aidan explains what the new Public IP Address preview Azure feature offers customers of Microsoft’s cloud service.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
There was quite a bit of networking news from Ignite and Aidan breaks it down for you to digest.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Aidan breaks down all the Azure Virtual Machine news from Microsoft’s Ignite conference.

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.