Author: Alan Kinane

I'm delighted to be kicking off Azure Spring Clean, a community event focused on Azure management best practices throughout the month of February. Many thanks to Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton for organising this event and allowing me to contribute. My contribution is all about best practices for Azure Role Based Access Control. This is … Continue reading Azure Spring Clean – RBAC Best Practices

First of all, what the heck is Hyper-threading? Well, in a nutshell Hyper-threading is a technology found on some Intel chips (AMD have their own equivalent technology) to improve multi-tasking by running tasks in parallel on the CPU. For most compute workloads multi-tasking is very common so Hyper-threading is usually very helpful and allows your … Continue reading Azure vCPUs and Hyper-threading

I had a curious issue this week that I could not explain for some time.  I eventually got to the bottom of it with some assistance from Azure Support and thought I would share some details in case anyone else comes across the same issue. The problem:  I had a couple of Virtual Machines in … Continue reading A lesson learned on outbound connections with Standard SKU Public IP Addresses