Part 1: Laying out foundations for multicloud and hybrid cloud financial governance In this post, we discuss Cloud Economics. This is showcased on Microsoft Premier Developer Blog. We will focus on Cost Optimization which is the first pillar of the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework. However, whenever possible, we will extract principles that apply to other Cloud Service Providers (CSP) such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The purpose is to cover today’s reality: many enterprises and organizations are entrenched in Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud architectures ..read more

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere during the Spring of 2020 and you are a parent of a school-aged child, then we likely have something in common: you’re home-bound and so is your child. The COVID-19 pandemic has hit your country as can be seen in the John Hopkins Coronavirus map. John Hopkins Coronavirus map You probably heard of terms such as “social distancing” or more accurately “physical distancing”. You are certainly wondering when will your child go back to school? Every morning, my seven year old face-times his grand-parents, desperately trying to fight the social distancing seemin ..read more

Part 3: Security In Part 1 of the series (first showcased on Microsoft’s Premier Developer Blog), we discussed the business value of taking a single organization, single project approach in your Azure DevOps journey. In Part 2, we covered the fundamental techniques on which the Migration Tool relies. In this post, we will talk about security considerations and techniques. Security Requirements can vary widely from one enterprise to another. Under certain circumstances, it may even be a reason to deviate from the “One Project To Rule Them All” strategy and add another project. That being said ..read more

Part 2: The Migration Tool In our previous post (first showcased on Microsoft’s Premier Developer Blog), we discussed the business value of taking a single organization, single project approach for all of your enterprise or organization’s IT projects. Emphasis on this last word is placed because the word project is used in the business sense. In the language of Azure DevOps, a business project’s Work Items are fenced under an Area in the context of a single host or parent Azure DevOps Project. In this post, we focus on fundamental techniques used in the Migration Tool which allows us to clone ..read more

The Trilogy – Part 1 In this 3-part series showcased on Microsoft’s Premier Developer Blog, we will discuss the business value of having a single organization, single project approach in your Azure DevOps journey. Why a single project approach you ask? Usually, organizations or enterprises start their Azure DevOps journey in one of two ways: A migration from pre-existing on-premise Azure DevOps Server (aka Team Foundation Server) project collection(s). This is usually done using High Fidelity tools such as the TFS Migrator Tool. Organically: meaning the organization or enterprise initially cr ..read more