Practical Azure, FinOps and Cloud Transformation
Sharing lessons learned from more than twenty years of designing, building and operating enterprise technology.
Helping organisations modernise securely, operate efficiently and maximise the value of their cloud investments.
Retirement: Azure Linux with OS Guard in Azure Kubernetes Service
Retirements · Today
Public Preview: Agentless migration of on-premises SMB file shares to Azure Files (SMB)
Migration · Today
Generally Available: TLS/SSL certificate and end-to-end TLS encryption support for Azure Functions Flex Consumption
Compute · Yesterday
Generally Available: Azure Copilot Troubleshooting Agent
Management and governance · Yesterday
Reading: FinOps Foundation FOCUS 1.1 spec
Now
Building: a landing zone reference for regulated workloads
Now
Aiming for: Microsoft MVP nomination, 2026
Goal
Where I focus
Five areas that show up in almost every engagement, in some order.
Recent writing
Technical posts, opinions and the occasional rant. Photography lives on its own page.
2025
2025
Le Mans 2023
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2025
A matter of ROUTinE
Good practice hub and spoke
2025
Going on a Cloud Journey?
I recently wrote about how We are all getting FinOps wrong, and it got me thinking about the wider considerations of Cloud Adoption. Specifically some of my ...
2025
We're all getting FinOps wrong
Introduction
Speaking & community
Working toward a Microsoft MVP nomination — one talk, one answered question at a time.
First session in the works
No talks listed yet — this is where user group sessions, conference slots and community contributions will land as they're booked.
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