It's very easy to get started with Azure and deploy resources that will help you use the Microsoft cloud to do amazing things -- but then you get your monthly bill and wonder if there are ways to control it.
Open source projects often require downloading bits and jumping through hoops to work with them in a UI, so online options provide quick-hit tryouts.
The "Big 3" cloud giants -- Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform -- are locked in an AI supremacy race trying to outdo one another on a variety of fronts, including education and training.
Cloud building blocks are changing software forever, Paul Schnackenburg says in taking a close look at the new Microsoft Fabric.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 05/30/2023
Not using confidential computing might become the exception (at least on the server / cloud side), while using it will be just normal.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 04/26/2023
There are so many different technologies that can be connected via Azure Arc it's hard to keep up, which is why we have Paul Schnackenburg.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 02/28/2023
Don't you sometimes just wish this amazing Information Technology business we're in was just a little different? That tech just worked? That there was one standard instead of eight? That security wasn't an afterthought. And that all apps weren't tested in production under the guise of DevOps?
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 01/30/2023
Tom Fenton continues to be impressed with the low-priced Inovato Quadra, an alternative to the Raspberry Pi, and the person behind it, Michael Burmeister-Brown.
Paul details his personal, totally subjective highlights of the recent conference, which he found to be more substantial than some predecessors.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 11/29/2021
The point of AVNM is to give you a centralized way to manage connectivity and security policy, scoped to subscriptions or management groups for your entire Azure estate.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 11/03/2021
Tom Fenton goes under the hood of Windows Terminal (currently only available in Preview Mode).
From hyperscale database engines and improvements in ML.NET 1.0, to the preview of Azure Blockchain Service and new flavors of Azure SQL Database, here's a glimpse at what was announced at the Microsoft developer conference.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 07/31/2019
Here's what to keep in mind when planning your organization's backup and DR capabilities.
Released with the Windows 10 Insider Preview, the new architecture looks to deliver a faster file system performance, among other new and improved features.
Paul Schnackenburg walks through an implementation of public cloud computing for a small business IT infrastructure and shares what lessons were learned along the way.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 06/13/2019
Tom Fenton shares the results of some tests he conducted with Turbo Boost enabled and disabled on a CPU.
With enough real estate to work with multiple documents, you can attach multiple different computers and VDI clients, as well as wireless and wired keyboards and mice with no issues.
Tom Fenton takes a look at what the technology is and when it will come into play on a CPU.
The new machine learning service is designed to identify usable data without the need for custom coding.
Although the cloud is well known for its potential use as a backup target, public clouds are increasingly being used as a disaster recovery platform.