Context When we engage a discussion with a customer or a partner on AVS, one of the first asks – in order to propose a detailed architecture and pricing (ROI) – is to leverage RVTOOLS extracts. Rvtools extract is a dump of the current (existing, real) customer configuration, and this is a very reliable approach … Read more
ReMarkable has created a fantastic tablet for people who like to use a Pencil. The writing experience is fantastic, you can write or draw multiple days without recharging, and of course you can share this data with your phone and PC. A few months ago, I decided to buy one (tablet + cover + pencil/eraser) … Read more
In the past three years, the way we work has changed a lot due to Covid but also the “green” topic reducing a lot of budgets allocated to transportation. As a result, we spend a lot of time online, either on a smart phone or in conferences leveraging great products such as Microsoft teams. In … Read more
In the past 10 years Microsoft has provided a lot of services in Azure that could also be used “outside” of Azure, especially On Prem. We did this because by DNA, Microsoft is hybrid. Products like Defender (for Server, SQL), Sentinel, or Log Analytics are very common. They just require a manual install of an … Read more
Sometimes you try to do stuff remotely, and unfortunately, it generates some very bad effects that you did not expect at all. As a result of this, you have problems to reach the machine and get stuck. Today this is what happened to me, changing the IP config in a way that it was impossible … Read more
Azure Stack HCI is available in different offers but at the end of the day this is a packaged, hardened, Azure boosted version of Windows Datacenter/Hyper-V. It is not only to run Virtual Machines OnPrem, but you can also run natively some Azure services such as Kubernetes. Has its DNA is hybrid, the “Windows Admin … Read more
Based on my experience, this is quite mandatory during a POC to analyze in detail what the cost is. Why? because most of the components deployed are based on a variable, which is frequently the amount of data “ingested”. One of the easy way to do so is to go in the Log Analytics workspace, … Read more
As you probably know, a lot of products capture data and then store it in Azure Log Analytics. Then, either via the GUI of the Azure portal or via Kisto Queries, you can extract the relevant information and value it. Part of Azure Portal, you can create “workbooks”, the friendly name of reports in Azure. … Read more
è Service MAP is one of the great “solutions” that you can implement on top of Log Analytics (LA). You can either activate it manually, or it can be installed automatically by other components such as Insights or Defender. The goal of that product is to ask the Log Analytics agent (and the extension, … Read more
è Even if we have a lot of customers already using a lot of native Cloud services, we still have a lot of servers still running on the private network. One of the potential scenario is to migrate them in the Cloud. We call Move2Cloud scenarios where we want to migrate the servers … Read more