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New Platform Management Group and Subscription for Security in Azure Landing Zones

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:04:51 +0200

Microsoft has recently made an important change to the Azure Landing Zones (ALZ) architecture: the introduction of a dedicated Security Management Group and a Security Subscription within the platform structure. Here is the official blog post on TechCommunity.

From Silos to Products: How Cloud Organizations Need to Rethink

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:04:51 +0200

Adopting cloud technologies is more than a technical upgrade – it is an organizational paradigm shift. To successfully leverage the cloud, organizations must not only modernize infrastructure but also realign their own organization. This post explores why the shift from project-oriented to product-oriented structures is crucial – and how Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) supports this journey.

Extended Security Updates Windows Server 2012

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:00:37 +0200

The blog post “Secure Windows Server 2012/R2 workloads with options from Azure” shows the most important ways to continue to provide security updates to a workload based on Windows Server 2012 even though the end of support has already been reached.

At its core, there are the following main options related to Microsoft Azure if you are not able to modernize your workload and migrate to a new server version in the short term.

Cost Management - Azure RI vs. Savings Plans

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:00:37 +0200

The discussion comes up time and again: are Azure Reserved Instances (RI) or Azure Savings Plans (SP) the better option for running an IaaS-based application in Azure? There is no single answer to this question. In the following, we compare both options and evaluate them using different scenarios.