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December 19, 2025
Azure Arc demos show 5-10 servers connecting perfectly. Enterprise deployments with hundreds of on-premises and VMware servers look different. Here's what actually breaks at scale - ghost registrations, network complexity, vCenter integration, and the operational reality Microsoft's documentation doesn't prepare you for.
December 16, 2025
Azure Cost Management works beautifully—if you have perfect subscriptions or perfect tags. At enterprise scale, you have neither. Here's why Microsoft's cost tooling assumes a reality that doesn't exist, and what actually works when you're managing 40+ subscriptions with legacy chaos, M&A artifacts, and shared services everywhere.
December 16, 2025
Tags work beautifully at 100 resources. At 10,000 resources, they're a source of organizational fiction. Here's why tag-based governance always collapses—not because people are careless, but because tags require human perfection that doesn't exist at enterprise scale.
December 10, 2025
Complete enterprise Azure migration hub - Pre-migration planning, licensing compliance, ROI reality checks, and lessons learned from real-world migrations at scale.
November 24, 2025
End-to-end implementation guide for connecting VMware vCenter to Azure Arc with governance in mind: tags, policy, RBAC, and reporting from day one.
November 14, 2025
Complete Azure migration checklist: 80% of migration failures happen because you didn't ask these 8 questions BEFORE starting. License keys, vendor contacts, firewall rules, certificates - the enterprise migration checklist that actually works.
October 24, 2025
A governance and process look at Azure support tickets: SLAs, ownership, escalation, and why leaving it to 'open a ticket with Microsoft' is not a strategy.
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.
September 24, 2025
The biggest Azure migration mistakes enterprises make: moving applications nobody understands. Real migration failures, institutional knowledge loss, and what actually works.
January 01, 2024
Your Azure environment is ungoverned: 12,000 untagged resources, $800K/month bill with no owner map, 47 subscriptions in chaos. You have 90 days and limited political capital. Here's the enterprise-tested triage sequence that prevents you from getting fired while building long-term governance.
January 01, 2024
Free Azure RACI matrix template for cloud operations. Define responsibilities across security, networking, compute, and cost management. Aligned to Microsoft CAF with downloadable Excel and PDF templates.