What MSPs Need to Know About Azure Lighthouse
On July 11th, 2019, just three days before Inspire, Microsoft announced the general availability of a new Azure technology called Azure Lighthouse. Lighthouse promises to provide “capabilities for cross customer management at scale for partners to differentiate and benefit from greater efficiency and automation.” A great, deep under-the-hood overview of Azure Lighthouse can be found […]
Microsoft Azure Reserved Instances Explained
In this article, we will take a detailed look at how Azure Reserved Instances affect the cost of Azure compute consumption. This is not an introductory article, but more of a 300-level illustration using a specific example to demonstrate the salient points. Let’s start by defining a few terms: Azure Reserved Instance (RI) – the ability to pay for Azure […]