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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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[Please note that this post is quite out of date in that some of the interfaces and the programme...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Date: 02/04/2014
Mid January Azure Update
The latest Azure update has a couple of really big announcements: PCI DSS Compliance I remember...
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...
Date: 12/23/2013
Application Development on Azure
One of the best applications of Azure, and specifically Infrastructure Services, is the ability to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Date: 10/01/2013
Latest Azure Updates
Some nice new additions to Azure announced today: Virtual Machines (IaaS) New A5 Image (Available in...
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...
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...
Date: 08/23/2013