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Website: https://lisaattheedge.com

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The Scottish Azure Stack team is back in action.  It was good to have Kenny and Darren on the podcast again, we always have great discussions.  In this episode we spend a bit of time catching up when we realise we haven't done an episode for quite some time.  We talk about the work/life/lockdown balance and how we are getting on and then we dive in to the Azure Stack family and talk about some Microsoft Ignite updates.  Azure Stack HCI is the current star of the show, we're all extremely busy working with customers and partners who want to adopt Azure Stack HCI as their on premises consistent Azure Hybrid solution.

ABOUT 

If you have any questions for future episodes, let us know here: https://bit.ly/3o5Lru3

Darren is a Hybrid Technical Specialist at Microsoft and Kenny the Senior Manage for Partner Aligned HCI Engineering Technologists at Dell Technologies.    

You can connect with them both at the below Twitter handles and Links: 

LISA AT THE EDGE LINKS:

BLOG: www.lisaattheedge.com  

PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lisaattheedge  

BUY ME A COFFEE:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lisaattheedge  

Video graphics by the amazing Krist McKenna from Ratworks - http://www.ratworks.net/

Welcome back to Lisa at the Edge.  In this episode I'm joined by Dwayne Natwick, also known as Captain Hyperscaler! Keep listening to find out how Dwayne got the name! We hear how Dwayne got in to technology, his career development and many roles he's had to lead him to his current dream role of teaching as part of Opsgility.  We discuss being part of the community, shout out to Gregor Suttie and Richard Hooper for being awesome community peeps! 

Dwayne shares how he worked towards his MVP status and we discuss comparing Cloud platforms using a fruit analogy.    

Connect with Dwayne: 

Twitter: @DwayneNcloud 

www.captainhyperscaler.com  

www.opsgility.com   

LISA AT THE EDGE LINKS: 

BLOG: www.lisaattheedge.com  

PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lisaattheedge  

BUY ME A COFFEE:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lisaattheedge   

Video graphics by the amazing Krist McKenna from Ratworks - http://www.ratworks.net/

Happy New Year! Welcome back to the first episode of 2021. 

In this episode I am joined by the awesome human being that is Michael Levan. Michael shares his story of how he got in to tech, we both have a laugh and reminisce about World of Warcraft and then we take an unexpected turn.

We talk about career development, finding your passion and then have a really honest conversation about mental health and how 2020 affected us. This episode was an absolute joy to record and I am sure that you'll find a lot of value in our discussion.

Connect with Michael: 

Twitter: @TheNJDevOpsGuy

GitHub - AdminTurnedDevOps (Mike Levan)

Email - [email protected]

LISA AT THE EDGE LINKS:

BLOG: www.lisaattheedge.com

PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lisaattheedge​

BUY ME A COFFEE:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lisaatth...​

Video graphics by the amazing Krist McKenna from Ratworks -http://www.ratworks.net/

Welcome to Episode 25 and the last episode of 2020 - can you believe it? 

In this episode I am joined by an awesome friend and colleague Mike Lamia. Mike shares with us his career story. A born technologist there is nothing else that Mike could imagine himself doing. Although one role and terribly managed server room almost made him consider it. But VMware and virtualisation saved the day and he stayed with the industry.

Mike now works in Technical Marketing at Dell Technologies focused on Azure Stack products and loves to 'make tech real' for our customers. We also discuss setting some goals for 2021 and I get a special commitment from Mike! Have you thought about your 2021 goals yet? Let us know in the comments below!

Check out some of the awesome content which Mike has produced: 

Connect with Mike on Twitter @Evolving_Techie 

LISA AT THE EDGE LINKS: 

BLOG: www.lisaattheedge.com 

PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lisaattheedge​ 

BUY ME A COFFEE :https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lisaatth...​

Video graphics by the amazing Krist McKenna from Ratworks - http://www.ratworks.net/

In this episode I am joined by the wonderful Holly Lehman.  Holly is a Program Manager at Microsoft for the Azure CxP Partner Team and absolute Community Queen! In this episode we hear about Holly's career path from opening hotels in Las Vegas to Program Manager at Microsoft.  We talk about why non-techies are needed in tech, our passion for people and community and why you shouldn't fear hearing NO.  Holly also shares with us the reality of working and schooling from home and how supportive Microsoft have been during this pandemic.  We also get to hear about how Head in the Cloud, Heart in the Community was born and a true friendship gained.

Connect with Holly on Twitter @Lehman__Holly

Subscribe to Head in the Cloud, Heart in the Community: Head in the Cloud, Heart in the Community - YouTube

LISA AT THE EDGE LINKS:

BLOG: www.lisaattheedge.com

PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lisaattheedge

PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lisaattheedge

BUY ME A COFFEE:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lisaattheedge

Video graphics by the amazing Krist McKenna from Ratworks - http://www.ratworks.net/

This is the third episode of a mini Azure Stack Family series with Darren Small and Kenny Lowe.  We get stuck in to the Azure Stack portfolio and hybrid cloud and answer your questions.    

In this episode we discuss the imminent launch of Azure Stack HCI.  We talk about use cases with a focus on AKS.  Kenny delivers a great explanation of how to differentiate between Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack HCI.  We clarify licensing and commercials for Azure Stack HCI as well as clarify what disconnected and connected mean when applying those terms to Azure Stack HCI and Hub.  Kenny shares his set up for testing Hub with ASDK and HCI with WS labs. Azure Arc of course takes up some of our discussion and we talk about the Microsoft & Dell Technologies Centre of Excellence in partnership with Bordonaro IT in Germany.   

If you have any questions for future episodes, let us know here: https://bit.ly/3o5Lru3   

Darren is a Hybrid Technical Specialist at Microsoft and Kenny the Senior Manage for Open HCI Engineering Technologists at Dell Technologies.   

You can connect with them both at the below Twitter handles and Links:

Twitter: @KennyLowe  

Blog: http://www.azurestack.tips  

Twitter: @DarrenMSFT  

EPISODE LINKS:

CoE - Microsoft Azure Stack Center of Excellence powered by Dell Technologies (azurestack-coe.com) 

WSLab: https://github.com/microsoft/wslab

Jaromir Kaspar (created WSLab): https://twitter.com/jaromirkaspar    

PREVIOUS EPISODES:

The first episode is EP2 where we discuss how to make the perfect chip at home, the Azure Stack Family of products, how the portfolio and messaging has evolved as well as why Scotland is such a hub for technology: https://bit.ly/3iKUYoh   

And the second episode is EP7 where we discuss why Azure Stack Edge is a perfect sidekick for Azure Stack Hub, the benefits of a disconnected Hub, what it means to run an appliance in your datacentre, AKS Engine and answer some questions. We also talk a bit about the barriers to innovation and why a culture shift and deep understanding of customer issues is required to reach the potential of this new edge capability: https://bit.ly/340Ax0q   

LISA AT THE EDGE LINKS: 

BLOG: www.lisaattheedge.com  

YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/c/LisaattheEdge

PATREON: www.patreon.com/lisaattheedge  

BUY ME A COFFEE: www.buymeacoffee.com/lisaattheedge  

Video graphics,music and editing by the amazing Krist McKenna from Ratworks - www.ratworks.net

In this Episode I am joined by Ed Baker.  Ed runs his own training and services company, is an MVP, MCT and all round awesome guy.  In this episode Ed shares his journey from Police Officer to running his own business teaching Azure.  We discuss the value of certifications, our feelings on maths, school and apprenticeships and Ed has finally come round to the naming of Azure Stack HCI.   

Twitter: @edbaker1965 

Blog: www.ed-baker.com  

My Links: www.lisaattheedge.com  

https://anchor.fm/lisaattheedge 

https://www.patreon.com/lisaattheedge 

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lisaattheedge

Thomas is a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft focused on Azure and Hybrid and former MVP.  Thomas runs a very successful blog jam packed with useful content on Azure Certification Guides, Windows Server, Azure IaaS and more.  He is a successful speaker and I was extremely lucky to have him on the podcast.

In this episode we talk about Thomas's career path from apprentice to landing a dream role at Microsoft.  We also discuss Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud terminology and then get stuck in to hot topic of the moment: Azure Arc.

Hopefully you enjoy this episode as much as I did.

Twitter: @ThomasMaurer

Blog: www.thomasmaurer.ch

At Microsoft Inspire in July there were some pretty big announcements regarding Azure Stack HCI. This resulted in a lot of excitement and a lot of questions. To help get some of those questions answered I pulled together some experts from the community and Microsoft to discuss the announcements and answer your questions.

From Microsoft I am joined by Darren Small, John Marlin and Thomas Maurer and we also have MVPs Kenny Low and Jan-Tore Pedersen.

I will publish a blog in the next week or so with a summary of our conversation and all of the questions and answers. In the mean time I have included some important links below so check them out! 

@JohnMarlin_MSFT

@DarrenMsft

@ThomasMaurer

@Jantorep

@KennyLowe

For asking questions or reporting issues, you should go to https://aka.ms/hci-qa.  Think of this as the old MSDN forums.  When you ask a question, please ensure “azure-stack-hci” is the tag as this is what the Microsoft Product Group is searching on.

For suggesting new features or improvements, you can go to https://aka.ms/hci-uservoice.

For more information about Azure Stack HCI, you can visit our Azure Stack HCI page (https://azure.com/hci) or read through the various documentation (planning, deploying, etc) that is available at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/hci/?branch=release-hci.

For the support billing options and pricing, you should be able to get it at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/plans/.  The Premier/Unified Support option is not listed as this is not a specific Azure support offering, however, it does cover Azure Stack HCI.  For opening up a support ticket, you can either call in or use the open a ticket through Azure.