April has just disappeared, I have been used to working from home for periods of time; but this is different. I have found it very hard to work remotely with clients I have not had any face to face contact with, and the daily grind has been very hard going. To top it off, when…
Author: John
Azure Premium SSD now supports burst mode
Microsoft have made a number of changes to their Premium SSD managed disk service, 3 new small sizes (4, 8, & 16 GiB) and have also introduced burst mode for disk sizes P20 and below (<= 512GiB). Disk bursting allows your disks to increase both IOPS and Throughput for up to 30 minutes, this capability…
Share this:
Azure Capacity issues
These are truly difficult times, I thought I would start a series of blog posts about Azure Sentinel. This was going to take some effort getting a good volume of logs generated so I decided to use my MSDN account and associated credits to house the Log analytics workspace and create a free account to…
Share this:
iPads and a meditation streak
Recently I have found myself using my iPad Pro much more as a companion to my laptop, both for watching training videos and reading technical books as well as for reviewing documents and making notes with the amazing apple pencil. I bought mine a few years ago and as such it is a little long…
Share this:
Clearing up junk, destructive bunnies & the Disney+ channel
Ok so I have decided to give the new Disney+ channel a try, if only to see what The Mandalorian is actually like, I signed up for an initial 7 day trial and I have to say I like it. On the plus side there are all of the Star Wars & Marvel movies along…
Share this:
Staying up to date
One of my favourite questions to ask when interviewing potential staff is, what do you do to keep up to date and continue to learn? I like this because there is no right or wrong answer, but it does show that the candidate is engaged with the work and has a method to drive continuous…
Share this:
The end of the first week of isolation
We are at the end of the first week of isolation, and I am still sane, well as sane as I was last week It has not been a huge change for me as I am used to working from home for server weeks at a time, but this time I have not been able…
Share this:
First day of isolation, and a blog reboot
As we are now living through a true global pandemic, I like many others in the UK, am following advice from the government and beginning a period of isolation. As I have an underlying health condition, congestive heart failure, this for a recommended period of 12 weeks. So, for the next 3 months I am…