by Rinie Huijgen | Aug 5, 2025 | Business Impact
Beyond Lift and Shift Azure Virtual Machines have long been the foundation for cloud adoption. They offer on demand, scalable infrastructure that mostly behaves like a physical server while removing the need to manage the actual hardware. That simplicity made them...
by Rinie Huijgen | Jul 4, 2025 | Business Impact
Shifting Left: From ClickOps to DevOps In today’s cloud-first world, managing resources efficiently is more important than ever. Within the Microsoft Data and Azure ecosystems, we’ve seen a clear evolution, from the early reliance on manual interfaces and portals,...
by Rinie Huijgen | Jun 18, 2025 | Business Impact
Invisible Azure Waste In most Azure environments we take a look at, there’s a familiar pattern: resources that were once useful but are now just quietly sitting there, still active and still costing money. Old storage accounts, virtual machines, application gateways...
by Rinie Huijgen | Jun 12, 2025 | Business Impact
“Start small, scale smart; Landing Zones grow with your cloud ambitions.” Azure Landing Zones are a cornerstone of effective cloud adoption, yet they often spark confusion among teams diving into Microsoft Azure. This article aims to clarify what they are,...
by Rinie Huijgen | May 28, 2025 | Business Impact
Many organizations started their cloud journey in the Azure portal, a powerful and user friendly way of getting to know Azure. It works well, but it doesn’t scale well. Environments grow and become more complex, new people come in, and before long, no one knows what...
by Rinie Huijgen | May 19, 2025 | Business Impact
Monitoring database platforms across both on-premises and cloud environments is a growing challenge for many IT teams. Standard infrastructure monitoring tools often provide only surface-level metrics, lacking the depth needed to understand query behavior, resource...
