Azure Hybrid Benefit Archives - Thomas Maurer Cloud and Datacenter Blog focusing on Microsoft Azure Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:01:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-icon1024-32x32.png Azure Hybrid Benefit Archives - Thomas Maurer 32 32 71605618 How to Reduce the Costs of your Azure IaaS VMs https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/01/how-to-reduce-the-costs-of-your-azure-iaas-vms/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/01/how-to-reduce-the-costs-of-your-azure-iaas-vms/#respond Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:17:15 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=13223 Azure Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offers significant benefits over traditional virtualization. With benefits like the possibility to quickly spin up a couple of virtual machine in any Azure region around the world whenever you need it, is pretty powerful. There are a lot more benefits to Azure IaaS virtual machines. However, that’s not part of this blog. …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/01/how-to-reduce-the-costs-of-your-azure-iaas-vms/feed/ 0 13223 Extended Security Updates for SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 on Azure Stack https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/01/extended-security-updates-sql-windows-server-2008-azure-stack/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/01/extended-security-updates-sql-windows-server-2008-azure-stack/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:59:29 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=11128 SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will both be out of extended support within the next 12 months (detailed dates below). This means if you have these versions, you’ll need to migrate to newer versions of SQL Server or Windows Server or buy Extended Support soon to maintain support and receive security …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/01/extended-security-updates-sql-windows-server-2008-azure-stack/feed/ 2 11128 Windows Server 2019 – What is coming Next https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2018/08/windows-server-2019/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2018/08/windows-server-2019/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:19:17 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=9752 A while ago Microsoft announced the next key versions Windows Server 2019 and System Center 2019. And a couple of weeks ago, at the Windows Server Summit, Microsoft was taking more about what is new in Windows Server 2019. Microsoft also talked a lot about the positioning of Windows Server and what we can expect …

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