Why Your Infrastructure Belongs in the Cloud
You haven’t moved to the cloud yet? In this Azure Every Day installment, I’d like to tell you the top 5 reasons why you may want to move your infrastructure to the cloud. 1. Cost – Many people can take…
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Most Important Components of Azure Data Factory
Are you new to Azure and not know what Azure Data Factory is? Azure Data Factory is Microsoft’s cloud version of an ETL or ELT tool that helps you get your data from one place to another and to transform…
What is Internet of Things (IoT) and Why It Matters to IT
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a growing topic both inside and outside of the workplace. It has the ability to change how we live and how we work. Many are already on board with IoT, and global IoT…
Top 5 Takeaways from the Microsoft ICA Boot Camp
I was a recent attendee at the Microsoft International Cloud Architect Boot Camp, where I had the opportunity to participate in hands-on sessions, working closely with Microsoft teams and specialists, as well as other Microsoft Partners. This boot camp contained exclusive…
Introduction to Azure IoT Hub
The Azure IoT Hub is a two-way communication platform between the solution backend and the IoT devices themselves that allows you to manage, maintain and provision devices into your infrastructure. Today I’d like to discuss the Azure IoT Hub components.
Azure Site Recovery in 3 Minutes
Having a data/disaster recovery site or plan in place is crucial today, whether for compliance or to ensure if anything does happen, then your business will still be able to operate. Today’s episode of Azure Every Day focuses on Azure…
Introduction to Azure Data Factory
Introduction to Azure Data Factory Are you new to Azure, or looking to make the move and curious about what Azure Data Factory is? Azure Data Factory is Microsoft’s cloud version of a data integration and orchestration tool. It allows…
Top 10 Best Practices about SSIS and SSRS I’ve learned the hard way
Over the past 7 or 8 years, I’ve gone from “0 to 60” when it comes to database design, development, ETL and BI. Most of the skills I’ve learned were a result of mistakes I’ve made, and I’ve been mostly…
Where the **** did my Power View go?
Recently I was presenting a session on Microsoft’s Power View in what I had intended to be my final time presenting the session before retiring it to the archives. Unfortunately the presentation didn’t go as planned. For the life of…
Power View Date Filter Troubles
Now that I’m doing some more development of dashboards in the Power View interface, I thought it might be helpful to post about some of the date “gotchas” I’ve run in to with the development interface. Power View is very…