October 15, 2025
Microsoft's official migration tool assumes single domains and flat networks. Here's why it's architecturally incompatible with multi-domain hybrid environments.
Azure
Migration
Hybrid
Security
Enterprise
October 15, 2025
Finance celebrates retiring 100 apps instead of migrating them. Six months later: Why are we still paying for the old data center? Because 'Retire' isn't a decision, it's a $300K decommissioning project nobody budgeted for.
Azure
Migration
FinOps
Decommissioning
ROI
October 14, 2025
Finance compares Azure VM costs to server costs and declares cloud expensive. They're missing the entire point: no VAR meetings, no hardware refresh, provision in minutes instead of months. The value isn't in the spreadsheet.
Azure
Migration
ROI
FinOps
Procurement
Leadership
October 11, 2025
I spent 3 months bridging the gap between ServiceNow records with no context, RVtools exports mixing servers with virtual desktops, and ManageEngine tracking 21 AD domains. Then Azure Resource Graph gave me 31,000 accurate, tagged resources in 30 seconds.
Azure
CMDB
Migration
Resource Graph
Operations
October 09, 2025
VMware admins: That 'Connect' button isn't console access. Serial Console is hidden in Help > Boot Diagnostics, works without networking, and doesn't require Azure Monitor Agent. Here's what Microsoft didn't tell you.
Azure
VMware
Migration
Troubleshooting
Serial Console
October 06, 2025
Track IPs across Azure subscriptions with this free IPAM tool. Search IPs, detect conflicts, reserve ranges, visualize network topology. Built for enterprise consolidation managing 44+ subscriptions. Full source code on GitHub.
Azure
FinOps
Governance
Migration
Networking
Open Source
September 24, 2025
Azure Migrate works perfectly. The problem is no one remembers how their applications actually work. Here's why enterprise migrations fail before they start.
Azure
Migration
Technical Debt
Enterprise
Application Discovery
