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Azure Disk Encryption is available for Windows VMs
Just in time before the weekend Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Disk Encryption for Windows VMs in all Azure regions that are public available. -> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azuresecurity/2016/05/20/azure-disk-encryption-for-windows-virtual-machines-reaches-general-availability/ This is a huge milestone for keeping your data secure. All you need is an Azure Key Vault in each region your running Azure VMs. To get…
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Review VCNRW sessions 2016
On April 20th I had the honor to speak at the first VCNRW sessions about my favorite topic Azure Stack. The one day conference was an awesome event with a set of top international speakers. Thanks to Helge Klein and Timm Brochhaus for such a great event. If you have missed to be on-site at…
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Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview – incremental release published
One of the pain points with the first Microsoft Azure Stack TP were the long running operations for IaaS regarding VM deployment, deletion, start and stop. Microsoft has released an incremental update yesterday to fix these issues and some more. Faster VM deployment times Better performance in VM-related actions such as stop, start, delete Incremental…
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Speaking at VCNRW 2016 and CDC Germany
I wanted to highlight two events driven by the community I will be speaking at. The first stop is at the VCNRW 2016 on 20th April in Cologne. My session is about “Microsoft Azure Stack – Azure for your datacenter”. Last week there were 10 seats left. Maybe since today the VCNRW 2016 is sold…
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Azure Stack and Azure Consistency
One of the interesting things of Azure Stack beside the underlying hardware infrastructure is the consistency with Azure. But interesting is the wrong wording for this it is the key concept and one of the reasons why Azure Stack exists. True consistency between the public cloud offer and the private cloud offer. It is an…
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Microsoft Azure Stack – Deploying your own images as a tenant
As a tenant you may want to deploy your own images instead of using the images provided by the cloud service provider. All you need to achieve your objective in Azure Stack is a sysprepped Windows Server or Linux image, an ARM template and a PowerShell script. The first step is to prepare the ARM…