Richardson Cloud, Rebuilt: Faster, Cheaper, AI-Driven
The blog moved off WordPress to a static site on Azure Static Web Apps — and I rebuilt it the way I think we should all be building now: with AI-driven DevOps.
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All posts →VMSS Zonal Expansion: Add Availability Zones Without Rebuilding
Azure's VMSS zonal expansion lets you add availability zones to a live scale set instead of rebuilding it. Here's how it works, the validation gotchas, and what it doesn't fix.
VMware to Microsoft: Who's Running Azure Stack HCI
John Miller, a 30-year technology consultant, on real Azure Stack HCI migrations: a 350-site automotive rollout, police departments ditching their SANs, and why AVD is moving back on-site.
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VMware to Microsoft: Customer Stories
Three real VMware to Hyper-V and Azure Stack HCI migrations from Daniel, a Microsoft MVP in Australia: what broke, what got faster, and what it cost.
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Azure VM Hibernation: Same Bill as Stopped, Faster to Come Back
Hibernating an Azure VM costs exactly what stopping it does. The real trade-off is a bigger OS disk and losing Azure Backup, Spot, and Availability Sets, not the monthly bill.
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VMware to Microsoft: The Expert Panel
Seven Hyper-V and Azure Stack HCI guests on one call that ran long enough to become two videos. What it's like getting a group of people who love this stuff talking at once.
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Azure Bastion Developer SKU: Secure Access, Free by Default
Azure Bastion Developer gives you no-public-IP RDP/SSH access to one VM for $0/hour. Microsoft made the secure path the free path. Here's what it does, its real limits, and how it compares.
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VMware to Microsoft: Cloud, On-Prem, or Hybrid
Daniel Apps on the four paths organizations take off VMware, and the real factors (CapEx vs OpEx, geography, licensing leverage) that decide cloud, on-prem, or hybrid.
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Running a Real Data Center on Hyper-V, No VMware Required
A hoster built a GPU-accelerated CAD desktop business on 100% Microsoft infrastructure, no VMware. The real rules for migrating an entire data center off it.