Real world business tracks leading towards Azure Services
Microsoft Ignite 2025 delivered transformative updates across cloud computing, security, and architectural best practices. This year’s announcements emphasize AI-driven optimization, zero-trust security, and hybrid cloud strategies, alongside AzureTracks, a structured learning initiative for cloud professionals. An incredible week for Microsoft Cloud yet again this year!
In today’s digital-first world, small businesses must leverage cost-effective, scalable, and secure cloud solutions to stay competitive. Microsoft Azure offers a powerful ecosystem of cloud services that can help businesses improve efficiency, security, and innovation without requiring extensive technical expertise. One of the biggest advantages of Azure and Microsoft Cloud is the ability to toggle (scale) up or down with your business. I’ve always felt that cloud-based secure identity is a huge advantage, and Entra ID makes it easy to support all the advanced security features without dragging the traditional big costs along.
In this post, we examine how to review and master your data connectors to optimize ingestion. Organizations worldwide are investing […]
Join me for as we explore one of the critical aspects of using Microsoft Sentinel — understanding data retention and how to get started. Data retention in Microsoft Sentinel involves managing how long data is kept within your Log Analytics workspace. This is crucial for compliance, incident response, log searchability, and cost management.
Finding the true cost of cloud SaaS tooling is a complicated and elusive task. Microsoft has some different tools we can use to try and estimate costs that we’ll cover in this post. There are challenges in accurately estimating cloud consumption and usage costs due to day-to-day variances in that usage and other factors. Let’s explore MDC cost estimating together!
Today we explore additional cost management options to use as part of your ongoing governance in Microsoft Sentinel. Let’s dive into the world of Log Analytics Workspace configurations together!
Let’s talk about Microsoft Sentinel and managing costs. With cost being foundational pillar of Microsoft’s Well Architected Framework, part of good governance, and a major driver for product selection of SIEMs; let’s see if we can take some of mystery out of how to get started with managing costs in our favourite SIEM solution!
Let’s take a look at setting data ingestion caps in an Azure Log Analytics workspace today. There are different reasons why we may want to limit the data coming into our storage account, today we look at both setting the data cap, and alerting us when that data cap is reached through Azure Monitor alerting.
In cloud cost management, just like on-premises, there is the challenge of understanding how to drill down and find the real cost of that one thing. Today, I’ll take a look at find the real cost of that thing….well…I’ll pick on data egress costs in this case. Join me for a little look through how to find the actual cost of data egress.
A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes. Released January 29, 2022.
