Hello Folks! If you have ever wrestled with Azure Files inside a storage account, juggling shared RBAC, shared networking, and shared IOPS across a pile of shares that really should not live togeth...

In this post I go over some tools and techniques exist for hardening Windows Server. As always, apply controls according to the server's role, test them against representative workloads before produc...

Hello Folks! If you have ever opened your monthly Azure invoice, stared at the object storage line, and quietly wondered how it grew so much, this one is for you. At the Microsoft Azure Infra Summi...

Hello Folks! If you are running AI workloads on Azure, you have probably learned the hard way that the wrong storage choice can leave a rack of very expensive GPUs sitting idle, waiting for data. I...

Hello Folks! If you have been running Premium SSD v1 because that is just what you have always done, this session from the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 is going to be a wake up call. Raymond L...

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...