Author: Alan Kinane

Accelerated networking is something I've previously suggested in my 7 ways to optimize your Azure VM performance post. In short, this removes the virtual switch from the host allowing the NIC to forward network traffic directly to the virtual machine. The result of this is lower latency over the Virtual Network but it's important to … Continue reading Azure accelerated networking put to the test

I still see quite a number of SQL Server deployments on Azure Virtual Machines. Often this decision is driven by the application vendor and from my experience to date a PaaS alternative such as Azure SQL isn't a viable option purely because the vendor hasn't tested their application with this yet and therefore will not … Continue reading SQL Server Virtual Machine Disk Optimisation

I've been waiting for this one for a long time so I was very keen to get stuck in with a deployment as soon as the public preview was announced late last week. Firstly, why is this important? Although many of us have now migrated file based sharing solutions over to the likes of Sharepoint … Continue reading First look at Active Directory authentication over SMB for Azure Files (Preview)