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An overview of Azure annoucements

Marcel van den Berg | December 11, 2015

Microsoft Azure is expanding in an incredible pace. It is hard to keep up with developments. The purpose of this post is to provide an overview of all

Backup/restore and disaster recovery

Dutch business continuity event featuring Rubik and Chris Wahl October 6

Marcel van den Berg | September 23, 2016

Weolcan, a Dutch consultancy firm fully focussed on cloud computing (strategy, architecture, design, migration) hosts an event at Thursday October 6 on Business Continuity. The event has free

Cloud computing

Oracle announces IaaS Generation2. What is it and can it compete with AWS?

Marcel van den Berg | September 21, 2016

At Oracle OpenWorld 2016 conference in San Francisco , Larry Ellison, Oracle’s executive chairman, made some interesting announcements on Oracle’s cloud ambitions. One of them was that Oracle

Cloud computing

Ravello is a competitive differentiator for Oracle Cloud

Marcel van den Berg | September 19, 2016

In February 2016 Oracle announced it acquired Israel based Ravello Systems. Ravello delivers what is called a cloud hypervisor. Customers can run their VMware and KVM virtual machines

Datacenter outage

A Loud Sound Just Shut Down a Bank’s Data Center for 10 Hours

Marcel van den Berg | September 12, 2016

We all are aware of the dangers that can bring down a data center like human error, fire, power issues (hello Delta Airlines), floodings, earthquakes and so on.

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Microsoft Azure available in two UK regions

Marcel van den Berg | September 7, 2016

At September 7 2016 Microsoft made available Azure and Office 365 in two UK regions. The map below shows the UK West (Cardiff) and UK South (London) regions.