Delving into the APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure

June 14th at 5:26pm
Kenny Lowe

At Dell Technologies World 2023, Dell and Microsoft together announced the APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure, and ever since I have been deluged with requests for more information and a real thirst and desire to delve deeper. Following Scott Hanselman's principle of conserving ke...

Multicloud.is

May 31st at 5:26pm
Kenny Lowe

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When I registered the domain 'multicloud.is', it was with the explicit intention of writing this blog. Rarely have I encountered a less well understood and more broadly abused term in our industry than multicloud and hybrid cloud (although the conflation of AI and ML is up there), and I wanted to...

Whats on my desk - January 2023

January 24th at 3:39pm
Kenny Lowe

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This is an article I've resisted writing for a long time now, mostly because I've never wanted to be the 'look at all the stuff I've bought!' guy. I'm reminded of an incident many years ago when a friend got one of the first Teslas in Scotland and...

Outlook Tips and Tricks - 2022 Edition

November 17th at 5:39pm
Kenny Lowe

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Tip 1 - Mark as Read on Delete

When you select an email in Outlook, even if it's set to be marked as read when selected, if you delete it without navigating away, it'll still be marked as unread in your deleted items folder.

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How I Manage My Time - 2022 Edition

November 17th at 3:39pm
Kenny Lowe

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Right off the bat I want to say that this isn't a list of things I've bought or peripherals to make meetings 'easier' or 'cooler'. This is a run down of the pattern of work I've settled into over the last few years which seems to help maximis...

Screen Sharing with an Ultrawide Monitor

March 18th at 3:39pm
Kenny Lowe

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Over the past few days, I've done a bit of a refresh of my home working environment. Partly to tidy it up, and partly because my other half will be working from home for the foreseeable future, so we needed to free up some screens for her to...