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Planning is the key to a successful migration to the cloud
This article focusses on the PLAN phase of the Cloud Adoption Framework for Microsoft Azure (CAF). In our last blog we discussed the Strategy phase of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF),...
The crucial first steps to moving your infrastructure to the cloud
Cloud Adoption Strategy Moving your infrastructure to the cloud is a big move for any organisation: it is vital to understand how to make those crucial first steps to take advantage of the benefits...
Microsoft Surface Pro 8
The new Microsoft Surface Pro 8 announced today, has some nice updates! We think it’s worth considering if you have an older Surface Pro, especially older than a Pro 7 and are looking for the same...
Data centre exit: could you benefit from moving to the cloud?
Are you being held hostage by your data centre service provider? For many companies, coming to the end of your data centre contract is a big opportunity to move to the cloud. Having been locked into...
Simplify Azure deployments and ensure consistency by using template specs
What are Azure Template Specs? Azure Resource Manager template specs are native resources in Azure. We we can use them for storing an ARM Template. This template can then be used to deploy objects...
How to Reduce Azure Costs with Reserved Instances
There are many ways you can perform Azure cost optimisation, and in this article, we shall be looking at one reliable technique: Reserved Instances. We will describe what they are and how we can...
Infrastructure as Code and Azure DevOps Step by Step Tutorial
We have created four Infrastructure as Code with Azure DevOps tutorial videos to help people get started on our YouTube channel. The idea was to help people avoid common pitfalls and so we can...
Start your cloud journey with RapidStart Azure Landing Zones from LA NET
RapidStart Azure Landing Zones from LA NET ensures customers wanting to move to the cloud quickly can do so, without compromising on governance, security and best practice guidance. RapidStart from...
Cloud Optimisation from C-Facts
We have recently started using the C-Facts cloud optimisation portal which was introduced to us by our partner Corent Technology. The portal has helped us understand our customer spend better and...
Azure SQL Database Pricing and Cost Optimisation
This post looks at Azure SQL Database Pricing and Cost Optimisation and what users need to know. For example, the newer database default is about ten times the price of a previous Standard S1 or...
Cloud Managed Services Optimisation with SurPaaS Continuo from Corent Technology
Review of SurPaaS® Continuo™ from Corent TechnologyThis article will take a look at the Continuo component of the SurPaaS® platform, made by Corent Technology Inc. The SurPaaS platform is based...
3 Azure Data Security – Data Classification – Part 3
An important part of Azure SQL Data Security is being able to identify where classified and confidential resides in order to protect it and audit and control access. This is where Data...
2 Azure Data Security – Azure Private Link – Part 2
Hello and welcome to part two of our series on Azure data security where we will demo Azure Private Link and talk about restricting access at the firewall level as well as access control. We will...
Azure Data Security Series – Part 1
This is the first in a short series of blogs and videos that show some of the basic and advanced security features of Microsoft Azure Data Security. In this video we will share our top 3 common...
Find and Stop Azure Automation Suspended Jobs
In this post, I have provided a PowerShell script to find jobs using the Update Management automation patching scripts, and stop suspended jobs. CREATE USER [dbreader@lanet.co.uk] FROM EXTERNAL...
LA NET Are now a Gold Cloud Platform Microsoft Cloud Partner
We are very happy and proud to announce that are now a Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform Partner !