Niall's Blog

Niall Moran | Technical Evangelist @ Microsoft Ireland | @niallermoran

Get Free Open Source Tools from Bitnami on Azure

Bitnami is quickly becoming the trusted source for secure and up to date server based apps. Bitnami...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 07/04/2016

Getting Started with Infrastructure Services on Azure

One of the benefits of building your application on Azure Infrastructure services is that you can...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 07/04/2016

How to Secure Your Customers' Data in Azure

One of the great benefits of hosting your application or website on Microsoft Azure is the ability...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 01/20/2016

Go from Zero to Big Data in 15 Minutes with Azure Hortonworks Sandbox

If you've been wondering how to get started with Big Data solutions and not really sure where to go...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 01/07/2016

Getting Started with IoT Solutions on Microsoft Azure

The Internet as a Backbone The internet has changed everything and we no longer see it as a tool to...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 01/04/2016

Running a High Volume Website on Azure Infrastructure Services

The Tech a CEO Needs to Know Cloud technologies like Microsoft Azure offer a very quick and simple...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 05/18/2015

Getting Started Building Apps for Windows 10

Windows 10 represents a truly unique opportunity for developers to target as many devices as...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 03/26/2015

Win an XBox One + Kinect Sensor

Microsoft Ireland are giving away an Xbox One with Kinect each month for the next three months and...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 03/26/2015

Access Your Business Applications on any Device using Azure RemoteApp

One of the big challenges that organisations face in this new Mobile First, Cloud First world is...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 12/23/2014

Microsoft Azure Review of 2014

2014 has been a massive year for Microsoft Azure. We have seen Azure show up as the only leader...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 12/22/2014

Polyglot Compute - A Pattern for Running Modern Applications

One thing that has always amazed me is how people tend to latch on to the latest trend, even if that...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 12/14/2014

Learn Azure with the Microsoft Virtual Academy

One question I am asked a lot is what online training is available for Microsoft Azure, especially...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 10/30/2014

Activating your 5 free Azure Accounts on BizSpark

[Please note that this post is quite out of date in that some of the interfaces and the programme...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 08/22/2014

National Transport Data now in Bing

Bing Maps and National Transport DataI am delighted to announce that Irish transport data is now...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 06/12/2014

Creating a Stretched Network on Microsoft Azure

Take Full Advantage of a Global Array of Data Centres One of the really powerful advantages of using...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 05/22/2014

Meet Cortana and Windows Phone 8.1

One of the big announcements at build 2014 was Windows Phone 8.1 which offers a serious amount of...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 05/02/2014

Microsoft Azure Updates

It's been a really busy few weeks in Microsoft. We have a new CEO, we have launched Office on iPad...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 04/11/2014

Win an XBox One!

For our Tech audiences in Ireland:Last month we launched our Nokia 520 competition where we invited...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 04/10/2014

Build 2014 Day 2: Guest Blog by Neil Turner

Neil Turner, our man on the ground in San Fran reports on Day 2 of Build. Neil Turner is one of...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 04/04/2014

Build 2014 Day 1: Guest Blog by Neil Turner

Neil Turner, our man on the ground in San Fran reports on Day 1 of Build. Neil Turner is one of...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 04/03/2014

Extra Resiliency Options, a Name Change and a Price Drop for Microsoft Azure

Out with the old and in with the new First up, you may notice the change in name I use in the title...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 04/01/2014

Help your Website Survive Dragons' Den

Dragons' Den is a UK television show which has local versions in over 24 countries including...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 03/31/2014

Win a Nokia Lumia 520 Smartphone - Ireland Only

Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 are now available for you to download....

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 03/20/2014

Deploying SharePoint 2013 on Azure

Over the years I have spent quite a lot of time on customer sites deploying SharePoint solutions. I...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 03/10/2014

Allocating Static IP Addresses to your VMs

When deploying a workload to Infrastructure services it's always a good idea to define a VNET and...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 02/23/2014

New A8 and A9 instances for Cloud Services

Last week we announced the general availability of two new instances called "compute intensive...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 02/04/2014

Mid January Azure Update

The latest Azure update has a couple of really big announcements: PCI DSS Compliance I remember...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 01/16/2014

Windows Azure Review of 2013

One of the things I find so exciting about Windows Azure (apart from the challenge of keeping on top...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 12/23/2013

Application Development on Azure

One of the best applications of Azure, and specifically Infrastructure Services, is the ability to...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 11/15/2013

Azure Billing Alerts, ACLs and More ..

We have just released some major updates for Azure which solve a couple of problems that I see quite...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 11/05/2013

Big Week for Azure

This has been a massive last week for Azure. With new releases of VS and .NET framework as well as...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 10/25/2013

Visual Studio 2013 Released

The latest release of our Visual Studio Product has just been released, 2013. With this release you...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 10/18/2013

Azure Price Cuts and Some New Features

First off support now for Windows Server 2012 R2, which will spin up 30% quicker than other...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 10/18/2013

Microsoft achieves US FedRAMP JAB P-ATO for Windows Azure

Windows Azure is the first public cloud platform, with infrastructure services and platform...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 10/08/2013

Modern App Development Workshop

Our first in the monthly series of App workshops is on in Microsoft Building 3, Carmenhall Road,...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 10/01/2013

Latest Azure Updates

Some nice new additions to Azure announced today: Virtual Machines (IaaS) New A5 Image (Available in...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 09/26/2013

Trusting the Cloud

Today I met with a number of start-ups within the DIT hothouse. It’s always a pleasure to meet...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 09/09/2013

SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery on Azure

The latest release of Azure has a focus on scalability and high availability in the cloud along with...

Author: Niall Moran - Ireland Date: 08/23/2013