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What’s New with Azure – September 2021

Microsoft recently announced that their Ignite (online only) conference will be running again on November 2-4. That means we are approaching peak season for announcements, new public preview releases, and general availability. “Q3” in announcements and roadmaps will often mean between early September and maybe the third week of October – a code freeze will...

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What’s New with Azure Infrastructure – August 2021 Edition

I think you’ll find that there are quite a few announcements this month. The summer quiet period is over, and we’re into a whole new development/release semester in Microsoft, not to mention the countdown to the usual peak release season for Microsoft Ignite has started – most releases announced at Ignite happen well before Ignite….

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – March 2021 Edition

Microsoft ran another virtual edition of the Ignite conference in March. As usual there were a large number of Azure infrastructure announcements. Availability Zones Expansion Microsoft has committed to introducing availability zones to all Azure regions by the end of 2021. An Azure region (supposedly) is made up of one or more physical data centers…

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – January 2021 Edition

The first month of the year has come and gone but here is a recap of the Azure announcements for January.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – October 2020 Edition

October, the first month in Q4 of the calendar year and Q2 of the Microsoft financial year, is also in the middle of planning for the next semester of development of Microsoft Azure (codenamed Cobalt).

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – May 2020 Edition

As you might notice below, there were a lot of announcements in the world of Azure Infrastructure last month. That’s because Microsoft Build, the developer-focused conference, happened and it is one of the inflection points for new releases in the Azure calendar. Sure, Build is developer-focused, but in the modern world, developers and operators are…

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

October was a busy time for Azure announcements, here’s what you need to know about the announcements last month.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure — June 2018

We’re entering the laid-back days of Summer. There isn’t much Azure IaaS news, but we’re after quality, not quantity.  June was a good news month for those of us using Microsoft Azure.

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Comparing the Basic and Standard Azure Load Balancers

Microsoft recently added a new tier of load balancer to Azure, the Standard Load Balancer, in addition to the previous (now renamed) Basic Load Balancer. In this post, I will compare the two and explain why you might opt to deploy the Standard Load Balancer.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure — April 2018

We’re just a few weeks away from the Microsoft Build conference, where historically, a lot of announcements are made.

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