Rob Sanfilippo discusses processes and tools to monitor and optimize Azure usage charges and avoid surprises.
July 27, 2023Directions’ lead analyst Wes Miller summarizes Microsoft’s security services for clients, servers, and infrastructure.
April 27, 2023Jim Gaynor explains Microsoft’s two cloud desktop services and how they are evolving.
May 26, 2023Rob Helm discusses the top factors to consider when licensing Windows Server for virtualized systems.
June 26, 2023Rob Sanfilippo explains Microsoft’s strategy for combining Azure with other vendor’s clouds.
December 15, 2022Barry Briggs examines the much-hyped term “cloud native”, and also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of cloud native computing, the Azure technologies Microsoft offers to support it, and a framework to help you decide when it makes sense to build a cloud native application.
January 26, 2023Rob Helm, Jim Gaynor, and Rob Horwitz explain licensing changes that will benefit customers centralizing Windows desktops in their own data centers or with small service providers.
February 23, 2023Directions’ analyst Andrew Snodgrass provides insight into current trends and how they will shape the future of SQL Server features and services – whether on-premises, in Azure, or both.
March 30, 2023Joshua Trupin discusses what organizations must do to keep Power Platform from outpacing their ability to manage it.
July 28, 2022Rob Sanfilippo presents Azure monitoring options for reliability, performance, and cost control.
August 25, 2022Michael Cherry discusses what companies can and can’t learn from the experiences of Microsoft’s own IT organization with its technologies.
October 5, 2022Jim Gaynor explains the options and gotchas for collaborating with external users and organizations in Teams.
November 8, 2022