FinOps – Building a Capability
Benefits of resourcing internally Vs. externally? I was recently at a conference during which I was asked, should a CXO hire a FinOps expert/team. It was one of those questions that stayed with me, and like all good questions, over the past week it’s crept into my conscience a fair bit. I guess the best place to […]
Migration options when leaving VMware
Whether it was the recent announcements from Broadcom, or you’ve just been considering your on-premises or private cloud hypervisor stack for a while, you might be thinking, what are my alternatives? Well, there are a few, all with pros and cons, so let me give you a whirlwind tour from the perspective of Appcentric. Stay on-prem with […]
Where to start with massive Azure Bills
So you’ve just finished your cloud migration. Some of it went well, some of it not so well, but you got there, or mostly there in a hybrid setup. But then three or so months pass and boom, a massive bill has been reported by one of the execs and everyone is looking around hoping […]
ARM Template Role Assignment Learnings
ARM templates are one of those things that the learning curve can be considered steep, but once you get there they make your life so much easier you’re glad you did it. If you’re like me, Google is your friend and whenever you hit an issue with your latest template you resort to searching error […]
AKS in a Security Conscious Enterprise
Containers and in particular Kubernetes popularity has been going from strength to strength of late. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is the blue PaaS-like offering of this where the vendor manages the masters and you just need to maintain the agent nodes, better still you only pay for the compute. But like all things PaaS, while […]