Why is our web app down or super slow to load all of a sudden?! Traffic numbers are through the roof! What is going on? Did we go viral? And that is how a denial of service attack looks. An attacker tries to bring down your app by generating so much traffic to it that […]
For the last couple of years I have had a cloud first focus, but I will always have a love for leveraging cloud technologies on premises as well. Over the last several days I got hands on with some of the latest and upcoming Azure Hybrid technologies and I’m really excited about what is coming. […]
One of the key concerns that most organizations have is keeping their data secure to protect themselves and their clients. In this latest post in my Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) series, I’ll be exploring how organizations can use Azure Virtual Desktop to keep their data secure while still empowering employees to be flexible to work […]
This is another installment in my series about Azure Virtual Desktop and how it can help you achieve some of your high level IT initiatives. You can find the introductory post here as well as a post about AVD and zero trust here. In this post I will discuss how you can use AVD to […]
This post is the second in a series where my goal is to show how AVD can help you achieve some of your key IT initiatives. My last post gave a high level overview of Azure Virtual Desktop and some of the key features and benefits. This time, I’ll dive deeper into an aspect of […]
Series Intro Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is one of the most transformative and rapidly growing services on Azure. I’m going to do an entire series about Azure Virtual Desktop that focuses on some of the high level initiatives that AVD can contribute to and enable, as well as some deep dives into how it works […]
Azure Firewall is a great first party managed firewall service on Azure and it has seen tremendous growth. The one downside of Azure Firewall is its cost which is over $1,200/mo for the Premium SKU. Now don’t get me wrong, I think that price is actually pretty good for what it is, but what if […]
As always, I really enjoyed Ignite 2022 and the announcements that came out of it. Some of my favorite announcements were about some new Azure storage options. The new Azure storage options that were announced were the general availability of Premium SSDv2 managed disks (announcement) and the preview of the Elastic SAN (announcement). I’m going […]
** Update – As of 3/15/2023 Azure Firewall Basic is generally available with no significant changes to features or pricing. ** Microsoft just released the new Azure Firewall Basic SKU to public preview and I have thoughts. You can find the original announcement here. I’m excited that Microsoft is targeting a lower price point with […]
I was recently working with a large public university to design an Azure network architecture that would be scalable, flexible, and highly available. The design we settled on used the Azure vWAN service and they wanted to connect to their physical campus using IPSec VPN tunnels. Their on premises gateway is a Palo Alto firewall […]