06 December 2019
XIRUS is happy to announce that we achieved Microsoft’s Silver Partnership status for the DevOps competency. This partner competency acknowledges XIRUS’s know how in helping our customers navigate Azure infrastructure best practices and incorporating modern principles around infrastructure and application deployments to the Microsoft Azure cloud. This achieved partner status...
24 November 2019
As part of our End of Year sprint we are happy to offer the following to our partners and customers: Complimentary high level assessment of your Azure subscriptions Supported by a 1-2 hour workshop / interview and inhouse developed automation we will assess your Azure environment and identify areas to...
24 November 2019
Last week our Director David in his role as a Microsoft MVP was invited to the Microsoft MS Innovate conference in Sydney where Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella presented the keynote. You can watch all recordings of the conference here. Satya’s message mirrored Microsoft’s mantra that technology is important, but people...
06 October 2019
Windows Server 2008 Countdown From the time of publication (07/10/2019) it is only 99 days until Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 go out of support. This means there will not be any more Security Updates for these Operating Systems (OS). See Microsoft’s guidance for more information. The...
24 March 2019
Free Azure webinar As part of our commitment to training and the community we are happy to announce that we will start a new series of free Azure webinars presented by David. Register here to get your FREE ticket. Yes, FREE! Webinar format The idea behind these webinars is to...
10 March 2019
Getting started with Pulumi on Azure Pulumi? Someone the other day didn’t quite hear me right and asked “Haloumi?”. Well, I can’t blame them, Pulumi is still a new player, started in 2017 by two former Microsoft employees. What does Pulumi do? Well, they took Infrastructure as Code VERY literal...
21 November 2018
This is a quick one but it cost me quite a bit of time to solve this little puzzle, which ended up being a not too difficult one after all. I was asked to create an Azure pipeline which would create a new Azure DevOps build agent based on a...
07 November 2018
IT is not my job it’s my passion They say if you find a job you love, you don’t have to work another day in your life. After my first passion didn’t work out as a career (I intended to become an Air Traffic Controller as I love aviation) I...
06 November 2018
Safe the date for our upcoming Azure Foundations Training in Melbourne on Thursday 31/01/2019 Learn tips and tricks from a Microsoft MVP how to set up and configure Azure for your business. Training Objectives This training will cover a company’s Azure subscription design and foundational setup. Attendees will learn how...
02 October 2018
Without a strong foundation your cloud will soon collapse. To make sure that is not the case we believe it is paramount to get the foundations right even before deploying the first application into the cloud. Business Requirements A cloud foundation builds on business requirements, not on tools. Tools will...
29 September 2018
We are thrilled to announce our presence at two major independent conferences on two continents over the next two months. David will be travelling and presenting on important Cloud topics at the following conferences: IT DevConnections in Dallas / USA Highload++ 2018 in Moscow / Russia (English website) Cloud Track...
19 September 2018
If you are contemplating a move to the public cloud then it does not matter which industry you are in, Retail, Travel, Banking, FinTech, Health or even Government. These all have one thing in common; you need a good strategy. Actually, they have one more thing in common, cloud is...
02 September 2018
It is with much pride that I am happy to announce that from today on XIRUS has its first employee. Technically, really the second employee, as David was the first, but who cares for technicalities?! Without further ado, please welcome Sandra O’Brien to the team. Sandra joins us from the...
26 August 2018
Two weeks ago David represented us at the Techmentor Event in Redmond / USA which was held on Microsoft’s global headquarters, a great venue for a great event. Apart from delivering two very well received sessions on cloud topics he also used the opportunity to meet members of some Microsoft...
26 August 2018
Swiss knife Azure toolset with Linux Run all the containers I do not like installing tools on my laptop, mainly because I do not want to get attached to my laptop. Around 3 years ago I read Jess Frazelle’s blog article on how and why she runs all her desktop...
14 June 2018
Azure SQL - Logs and metrics Right click - deploy. Copy a file to the server. Lift and shift your on-premises server to the cloud. What do these practices usually have in common? Yes, the lack of production readiness in the cloud. Lack of service logging and metrics collection. Something...
13 June 2018
News and tech articles around Microsoft Azure We will be continuously posting interesting articles around the latest announcements on Microsoft Azure and what they mean to you as a customer. On top of that we will also post technical articles explaining how Azure services work or how to solve specific...