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Announcing the general availability of the Smart Azure Calculator on the Azure Marketplace

On this 2021 “Blue Monday” we have good news for all these Microsoft partner sales facing challenging Azure consumption targets in 2021. The Smart Azure Calculator is now available and will help…

Sales
Making a pragmatic Azure storage cost estimate

Data is the new ‘gold’ and data has become the ‘new production factor’. The growing importance of data has led to an explosion of data storage and in connection with this, storage…

Sales, Storage
Azure Landing Zone and the other 150 SKU’s

If you make an Azure migrate quote, you naturally want to give as reliable picture as possible of the expected monthly Azure costs. The greatest attention is paid to the Compute and…

Pricing, Sales
Azure Hybrid Benefit: better then Black Friday discount

If a server is deployed on Azure, the version including the operating system is chosen by default and in case of a SQL Server, including the SQL license. That makes the Azure…

Compute, Pricing, Sales
Right Sizing scenario’s

Many Azure Migrate quotes are lost because the Azure VMs offered have the same configuration in terms of CPU and GBRAM as the existing customer VMs that have often been around for…

Compute, Sales
The performance differences between successive generations of processors

The Audi A3 1.6 liter version from the year 2000 had an output of 102 hp and a top speed of 189 km / h. The 2018 Audi A3 1.5 liter has…

Compute
Price development of Azure VMs over the years

The fact is that many customers have bad experiences with the predictability of the prices of hardware and software. Unexpectedly, prices are increased after a purchase has been made. All IT suppliers…

Pricing, Sales
What the GBRAM/Core ratio of a VM indicates

A virtual machine (VM) is configured by adding virtual Cores of vCPU and Internal Memory (GBRAM). The ratio of the GBRAM and vCores is an indication for what workloads this VM is…

Compute
Making easy price estimates with an aggregated Azure VM-series price

Those who want to make an Azure Compute price estimate today are forced to convert the existing list of VMs to a list of Azure VMs. This conversion of an existing VM…

Compute, Pricing
How to match legacy VMs with Azure VMs and make quick Azure cost estimates

We all know the above lists of VM configurations. The question is how you translate these VMs into the right Azure VM. To match large numbers of legacy VMs in an easy…

Compute, Pricing