What is Network Security Perimeter for Azure Event Hubs? Azure Event Hubs now supports Network Security Perimeter (NSP), a logical network isolation boundary that lets you define a security perimet...

Hello Folks! This week's updates all focus on something we hear from IT pros and platform engineers all the time: How do we make our environments more secure, more manageable, and easier to moder...

Hello Folks! If you have ever lived through a Friday night SAN expansion, racking new shelves and praying the zoning held together, the idea of getting that same shared block storage model in Azure...

Hello Folks! If you have ever stared at an HPC pipeline and wondered why the queue depth keeps climbing while every CPU graph looks lazy, this session from the Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Summit...

Hello Folks! If you have ever run a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) estate, you know the recurring riddle. The session hosts are designed to be stateless and pooled, yet every user expects a p...

Hello Folks! If you have ever been asked to move all our file shares to the cloud ASAP.  You already know that storage migration is one of those projects that looks easy on a slide and gets ugly in...

Hello Folks! Welcome back to the ITOpsTalk Blog and the Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Summit 2026 series. In this session James Baker and Sai Runtham, both from the Azure Data Lake Storage product...

Hello Folks! Welcome Back to AZ Update A few years ago, Antony Bartolo and I launched a simple idea called AZ Update. The goal was to provide a place where IT professionals could quickly under...

Hello Folks! If you have ever stood up a marketplace Ubuntu VM, SSH’d in, layered on your monitoring agent, security tooling, a couple of CA certs, and a hardening script, then captured the result ...

Hello Folks! If you have ever come back from vacation to find a “mystery” storage account no one remembers creating, or watched a junior admin nuke a production resource because they clicked the wr...