Moving on: Leaving Microsoft

After spending close to eight years in different roles at Microsoft, my time with Microsoft has come to an end. I accepted a new role, starting on May 1st, as Chief Technology Officer with HorseAnalytics an animal tech startup focused on providing a telemetry data platform for horses.

I will continue to work on Azure related topics in my new capacity although with a much broader focus than before including the Data + AI space with IoT and machine learning. It’ll be an interesting journey to grow into the new role and to switch sides from technical sales to technical executive, implementing the best practices I’ve been preaching for the last several years.

I’ll continue to work my blog, while the focus might change away from solely operations & management to a broader set of capabilities on Azure.

Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

17 February 2019·120 words·1 min

Governance is one of the major adoption challenges when it comes to cloud computing. Organizations find themselves “not ready” to consume cloud services whether that perception is more a gut feeling or comes from experience.

Automation in Azure

14 January 2019·1125 words·6 mins

Deploying resources and workloads at scale requires a healthy amount of automation. Automation helps to deliver consistent and repeatable results. I’ve tried to categorize some of the technology and provide some pointers to areas of application and pros and cons.

Azure Monitoring & Operations hackathon

14 January 2019·171 words·1 min

A request that I get many times is to provide guidance and best-practices on how to implement monitoring and operations management with and/or for Azure. Most organizations have subtle differences which makes it hard to put out a generic concept of how to enable this. There are high-level ideas but in my discussions with customers and partners I’m hearing that this is not detailed enough.

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