What’s in a name? Last year through a series of unfortunate events I lost my foundation domain name – sanders technology [dot com] and was forced to register the dot net version instead. I’d held the dot com domain for over a decade and a half, and during that time […]
Cloud Computing
As part of some work I recently undertook, I developed a number of “cheat sheets” which are often introduced into trade studies to try and apply a “like for like” comparison across competing services. Google has a number of services and application offerings to provide enterprise grade cloud solutions to […]
Google Cloud & G Suite – Cheat Sheet
As part of some work I recently undertook, I developed a number of “cheat sheets” which are often introduced into trade studies to try and apply a “like for like” comparison across competing services. Amazon Web Services is a comprehensive ecosystem of cloud services, and there are many different service […]
Amazon Web Services – Cheat Sheet

Introduction There’s no doubt that we are living in a highly connected era, partially driven by an ever expanding consumption model where technology is sustained by a growing list of different models and service providers. The established, old world, architecture which used to define a monolithic corporate IT infrastructure is […]
Federated Identity & The Enterprise – Part 1

Managing Identity and Securing Your Mobile and Web Applications with Amazon Cognito : Level 300 Stephen Liedig, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services ** Note: These are notes taken from various sessions and the keynote of the 2017 AWS Public Sector Summit held in Canberra, Australia. The information might be slightly […]
AWS Summit 2017 – Managing Identity and Securing Your Mobile ...

Well-Architected for Security: Advanced Session : Level 300 Ankush Chowdhary, Head of Security, Risk and Compliance, Professional Services, Amazon Web Services ** Note: These are notes taken from various sessions and the keynote of the 2017 AWS Public Sector Summit held in Canberra, Australia. The information might be slightly unstructured, […]
AWS Summit 2017 – Well-Architected for Security: Advanced Session

Cost Optimizing Your Architecture: Practical Design Steps For Developer Savings : Level 300 Simon Elisha, Head of Solution Architecture, ANZ Public Sector, Amazon Web Services ** Note: These are notes taken from various sessions and the keynote of the 2017 AWS Public Sector Summit held in Canberra, Australia. The information […]
AWS Summit 2017 – Cost Optimizing Your Architecture: Practical Design ...

Automating Event Driven Security in the AWS Cloud : Level 200 Mick McCluney, Technical Director, Trend Micro ANZ ** Note: These are notes taken from various sessions and the keynote of the 2017 AWS Public Sector Summit held in Canberra, Australia. The information might be slightly unstructured, and the photos […]
AWS Summit 2017 – Automating Event Driven Security in the ...

Notes from the AWS Summit Keynote, 30/8/2017 ** Note: These are notes taken from various sessions and the keynote of the 2017 AWS Public Sector Summit held in Canberra, Australia. The information might be slightly unstructured, and the photos might be a bit raw. Sessions: https://aws.amazon.com/summits/canberra-public-sector/sessions/ Detailed: https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-TZM-766/images/Canberra_Global_Summit_V4.pdf Keynote Presenters: […]
AWS Summit 2017 – Keynote
AWS Partner Training 1/5/2017 – Cliftons Canberra “AWS would like to invite you to attend the ALL NEW AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Foundations in Canberra on Monday 1st May from 9:00pm – 3:00pm. You will have a chance to meet the AWS sales teams for Canberra and learn how […]
Rough Notes: AWS Training – May 2017

Azure Training Day Microsoft Canberra – October 4th, 2016 Introduction A brief overview of the Azure Platform, starting from Infrastructure up. 36 Azure Regions, 28 Azure Compute. Most regions paired for redundancy. 500+ new releases in the past12 months, exceptional rate of change. Additional stats – the platform is very […]
Azure Training Day – Slightly Structured Notes

Introduction We’re finally here, and luckily for me, Microsoft has published an updated version of the Azure Stack – Technical Preview 2. I was unhappy with the performance of my original configuration (relying far too heavily on iSCSI), so I blew away my first (successful) deployment and reconfigured my server […]
Deploying the Azure Stack Technical Preview 2 – Part 1

Today I attended a Federal Government briefing at the Microsoft offices in Canberra. The agenda covered a wide area of topics, all relevant to Government and other sectors. These are my raw notes, taken during each session. I apologise in advance if they appear incoherent; I was put to task […]
Microsoft Federal Government Briefing – September 2016

CRM User Group – Unstructured Notes Noticeboard AppSource – online store built by solution providers, provide domain functionality as add-on CRM Ideas – http://crmideas.dynamics.comA bit like connect, but CRM focused. Add suggestions; community focused; vote on requests (like connect). More focus from the product team H2 Release – CRM Roadmap. […]
Canberra CRM User Group – August 2016

Upgrading from Dynamics CRM 2011 to Dynamics CRM 2016 Microsoft Canberra 29/4 As Dynamics CRM 2011 rapidly approaches end of life, many organisations are looking at potential upgrade paths. Dynamics CRM 2016, the most recent version, was released in December 2015 and represents significant benefit over previous editions. This presentation […]