5 ways to save costs by running .NET apps on Azure

By Dustin Ward

Digital transformation is accelerating at an incredible rate for consumers and employees alike, and the way we live and work has drastically changed. As a result, digital demand is surging, often past the capacity of existing infrastructure due to online demand for goods, services, and information. Businesses are shifting overnight from a physical first approach,…

Azure Cost Management and Billing 2020 year in review

By Dustin Ward

2020 has been an interesting year. Many of us started the year, excited about the opportunities that come with a new year. None of us predicted a global pandemic fundamentally changing how we live and work together or separately, as the case may be. And with this new normal reducing capacity in so many ways, managing…

Azure Digital Twins is now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Azure Digital Twins is generally available and read for production deployments. Features include: Flexible modelling and general graph topology, richer compute, bring your own IoT Hub for easier integration, and improved scalability.

Defining roles and responsibilities for cloud cost optimization

By Dustin Ward

Today’s challenging economic climate has driven many IT organizations to launch cost optimization initiatives. If you’re participating in one such initiative, you’ve discovered that cloud cost management is a journey, with many factors to consider and steps to take to improve cloud spending behaviors. If you’re already running in the cloud, the best way to…