Posts, a podcast and video series about Microsoft Azure by Marcos Nogueira.https://azurecentric.com/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-availability-zones-and-zone-redundant-storage-hits-ga/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-availability-zones-and-zone-redundant-storage-hits-ga/Very exciting news come this week! Microsoft announces the General Availability for Azure Availability Zones and Zone Redundant Storage. This is really good, because now you…Wed, 04 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTcloudstoragehigh-availabilityhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/enhancements-on-azure-portal-notifications/https://azurecentric.com/posts/enhancements-on-azure-portal-notifications/If you are like me and your Azure Portal is your center on your day, you probably see this enhancement of the notifications. I found very useful and make my day way more…Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTcloudportalhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/interview-with-mvp/https://azurecentric.com/posts/interview-with-mvp/Kevin Kaminski is a Windows and Devices MVP, he had this brilliant idea of creatingThe Virtually There with Kevin Kaminski series various people. I had the honor to be the…Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMTcloudhybridsystem-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-updates-series-august-2017/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-updates-series-august-2017/From the all the enhances or new features that Azure releases on the month of August, there was 2 that will make our live easier, at least in my opinion/experience/area of work…Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMTcloudsubscriptionshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-mvp-award/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-mvp-award/What a better way to start the 150th Canada day receiving this email:Sat, 01 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTcloudmvphttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-move-your-workloads-to-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-move-your-workloads-to-azure/When integrating your on-premises environment with Azure, you might want to use the lift-and-shift approach to migrate some of your existing workloads. There are several ways…Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTcloudazure-site-recoveryhybridhyper-vgeneration-2https://azurecentric.com/posts/lets-try-to-understand-the-azure-datacenters/https://azurecentric.com/posts/lets-try-to-understand-the-azure-datacenters/You probably see on a Microsoft Azure presentation the slide that shows the footprint of Azure. It seems incredible. Look awesome on the slide, but when you are deploying the…Sat, 09 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudarchitecturehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/transform-the-datacenter-part-4-extend-to-the-cloud/https://azurecentric.com/posts/transform-the-datacenter-part-4-extend-to-the-cloud/This post is a continuation of series of posts about Transform your datacenter. You can see the previous post: Transform the Datacenter – Part 1 Transform the Datacenter – Part…Sat, 25 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudhybridprivate-cloudsystem-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/transform-the-datacenter-part-3-automate-and-secure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/transform-the-datacenter-part-3-automate-and-secure/I’ve talked about the infrastructure fabric, and how there are enhancements available in Windows Server 2012 R2 on the previous blog post (see here). But how do you think about…Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudhybridsystem-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/transform-the-datacenter-part-2-software-defined-datacenter/https://azurecentric.com/posts/transform-the-datacenter-part-2-software-defined-datacenter/This post is a continuation of series of posts about Transform your datacenter. You can see the previous post here.Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudhybridsystem-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/transform-the-datacenter-part-1/https://azurecentric.com/posts/transform-the-datacenter-part-1/The goal of the series of posts, is based on one of my previous blog post about What we are learning from the cloud (see here). The idea is talk about the datacenter…Mon, 30 May 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudhybridsoftware-defined-datacenterhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/what-are-we-learning-from-cloud/https://azurecentric.com/posts/what-are-we-learning-from-cloud/From the past 8 years, we are seeing this transformation called CLOUD! It’s started with Public and Private! But from those early days what we learn from the Cloud?Thu, 19 May 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudhybridprivate-cloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/applications-on-premises-vs-cloud/https://azurecentric.com/posts/applications-on-premises-vs-cloud/When we talk about cloud to any organization, these are always some of the Key Points that frequently we should address: Most on-premises applications vendors recognize that…Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudhybridprivate-cloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/what-is-in-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/what-is-in-azure/While i was doing my annual backup, i found this in the middle. This will give you a bit what are the main services that i normally use or at least a see the majority of the…Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudarchitecturemobile-serviceshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-innovations-in-the-last-18-months/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-innovations-in-the-last-18-months/How can we be up-to-date with all the new or enhanced features on Azure if this is what Microsoft had been working on in the last 18 months.Fri, 08 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTcloudnetworkingstoragehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-on-enterprise-world/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-on-enterprise-world/What you as enterprise customers uniquely expect from a public cloud platform. These are “must haves” that I always get when I asked: Integration – So you can integrate with…Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/why-microsoft-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/why-microsoft-azure/I understand that there is a lot of competition when you consider all the cloud platform players out there. When I looked at what makes Microsoft unique in this space, is the…Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/cloud-innovation-presents-challenges-for-it/https://azurecentric.com/posts/cloud-innovation-presents-challenges-for-it/On my various engagements, often come to the conversations what are the challenges that I see IT facing and how the cloud innovation can help address lot of those challenges.Sun, 27 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/why-consider-the-cloud/https://azurecentric.com/posts/why-consider-the-cloud/In the last few years, we have seen an explosive growth in the use of the public cloud. While most of the initial adoption was seen by startups and smaller organizations, most…Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/new-cps-whitepaper-is-out-now/https://azurecentric.com/posts/new-cps-whitepaper-is-out-now/The Microsoft CPS Team (Cloud Platfform System aka Cloud-in-Box) recently authored a white paper that covers a variety of performance metrics. The white paper is broken down…Mon, 09 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/take-your-next-microsoft-certification-exam-on-line-nearly-anywhere/https://azurecentric.com/posts/take-your-next-microsoft-certification-exam-on-line-nearly-anywhere/Your next Microsoft Certification exam on-line, nearly anywhereThu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMTcloudcertificationhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/cloud-platform-roadmap/https://azurecentric.com/posts/cloud-platform-roadmap/What to know more about Microsoft Cloud Platform and what is coming up? Just visit this site! Microsoft enable you to know what is new at the Microsoft Cloud Platform…Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/virtualizing-your-data-center-with-hyper-v-and-system-center/https://azurecentric.com/posts/virtualizing-your-data-center-with-hyper-v-and-system-center/Free online event with live Q&A: http://aka.ms/virtDCFri, 14 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMTcloudhyper-vscvmmsystem-centervmwarehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/rtm-for-windows-server-2012-r2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/rtm-for-windows-server-2012-r2/Today Microsoft announce a big milestone: Windows Server 2012 R2 has been released to manufacturing!Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/free-ebook-introducing-windows-server-2012-r2-preview-release/https://azurecentric.com/posts/free-ebook-introducing-windows-server-2012-r2-preview-release/Microsoft just announce another free ebook offering from Microsoft Press. Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Release (ISBN 9780735682931), by Mitch Tulloch with the…Fri, 02 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTcloudhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/free-e-books-of-different-microsoft-technologies/https://azurecentric.com/posts/free-e-books-of-different-microsoft-technologies/Today I found, completely by accident I might add, a collection of free E-Book of different Microsoft Technologies.Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTcloudsystem-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/microsoft-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2012-cookbook/https://azurecentric.com/posts/microsoft-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2012-cookbook/I definitely recommend this book for who wants to know in deep System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager SP1.Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTcloudscvmmsystem-centerhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/what-is-a-cloud-for-it-pro/https://azurecentric.com/posts/what-is-a-cloud-for-it-pro/When talking to IT pros about the cloud and you’ll hear things like: “What is the cloud? Is it just a set of fancy catchphrases that's kind of lacking technical backing?” or “I…Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMTcloudprivate-cloud