Microsoft yesterday (26-03-2015) announced the capability to backup IaaS VMs on the Microsoft Azure platform using Azure Backup. Where some of my customers planning to migrate part of their applications and entire virtual machines to Azure, the protection of customer data through the backup of the entire Virtual Machine (VM) becomes a regular requested feature. Now we […]
Microsoft today released a new Security Advisory, related to Improperly Issued Certificates which could allow spoofing. These digital certificates were improperly issued from the subordinate CA, MCS Holdings, which could be used in attempts to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks. The improperly issued certificates can however not be used to issue other certificates, […]
Last thursday Microsoft announced the General Availability of the largest vm’s in the public cloud space. The sheer size of the vm’s is mind-blowing, hence the nick-name “Godzilla-VM”. So, like a child on the day before Christmas I couldn’t wait to get my hands (and MSDN credits) on one and I wanted to create one from the […]
Tonight, after dinner and helping the kids with their home-work, I decided to take another look at the Azure Preview portal, to scout for new things to come… And then I realized that people often don’t have a clue of these features being available for testing, let alone that they know where to look for […]
This blogpost is part 2 in a series of posts regarding how to create a vm in Azure. Part 1: What is “the planned way”? Part 2: Set up the prerequisites Part 3: Set up the VM Part 4: Go Hybrid More and more people realize that Microsoft Azure can be a huge benefit in their […]
This blogpost is part of a series of posts regarding how to create a vm in Azure. Part 1: What is “the planned way”? Part 2: Set up the prerequisites Part 3: Set up the VM Part 4: Go Hybrid More and more people realize that Microsoft Azure can be a huge benefit in their […]
