July 2020 – basvankaam.com

EUCdigest Podcast EPISODE 15 – EUC Use Cases Over The Years

Average time to read: < 1 minute

In this episode Ingmar and Eric have a chat with industry veteran Steve Greenberg about end user computing through the years. After starting as an audio engineer, he shifted into IT and made OS/2 applications available on NeXT computers using Citrix technology. Steve shares his experience on how EUC has evolved over the years and how things have changed and yet so much has remained the same. The important role of the community in the early days and how that has evolved and led to the creation of EUC the Masters Retreat. A great conversation with many historical fun facts. Tune in and find out.

What you need to know about Azure Reserved Instances, AHB and WVD

Average time to read: 6 minutes

I think most of you have probably heard or read about Reserved Instances (RI) and Azure Hybrid Benefit (AHB) before. If so, keep reading anyway because I’ve noticed that it is often unclear how these types of contracts work – and I’m here to help. What are the “rules” exactly? What happens when you want to quit early, what other options do you have? And if you haven’t heard about RI or Azure Hybrid Benefit before, this post is must read.

What are Azure Ephemeral disks, how to use them with WVD, and why care?

Average time to read: 4 minutes

Ephemeral OS disks are a form stateless disk storage. They are created on the virtual machine’s local storage (as part of the available VM cache, read on below) and are not written/saved to Azure Blob storage. This makes them ideal for stateless workloads, providing lower latency and thus faster read and write times. As always, there are multiple pros and cons to consider.