Accessing Azure VMs over RDP and SSH on Private IPs with Azure Bastion Preview

Securely connecting from the outside world to workloads and virtual machines on private networks can be challenging. Here’s how Azure Bastion can help!

Hosting static websites from Azure Storage

One of the capabilities of Azure Storage is you can host and serve static web content. In this post, I demonstrate how this can be achieved.

General Availability of Premium Azure File Shares

Azure now supports hosting File Shares on Premium backed storage media (SSDs) and are useful for IO-intensive workloads, hosting databases and high-performance computing (HPC).

immedia recognised as Microsoft Gold Partner for Cloud Platform solutions

The immedia ecosystem, a Durban-based Microsoft Gold Partner, announced today that it has earned its third gold competency in Cloud Platform. This Gold competency represents the highest level of expertise within Microsoft solutions and further validates immedia’s growth as one of … Continue Reading

Trigger Happy Azure Functions

Public speaking in the community is one of the ways in which we can grow as a community in a technological world that is moving at a very rapid pace. In order to keep up with the latest trends in the tech world, we need to collaborate with other like-minded experts. In this post I share my experience speaking at the Durban Azure User Group.

Thoughts on Microsoft’s big bets on bots

If messaging (and bots) are the new run-time, where and how does MS fit in?