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Why Automated Azure Cost Tools Aren’t Enough

by Frans Lytzen | 27/02/2026

Automated Azure cost optimisation tools are useful — but they don’t tell the whole story. Especially if you’re building and running your own applications in Azure. Real savings often sit at the architecture and code level, where experience and application insight outperform generic automation.

The AI Adoption Paradox: Why Waiting for Strategy (or Rushing Ahead) Is Holding You Back

by Sean Worthington | 23/02/2026

AI adoption often stalls between endless strategy and fragmented experimentation. Instead of choosing one, organisations can evolve both in parallel — building clearer objectives, growing confidence and delivering measurable value along the way.

AI in Core Business: Where Real Competitive Advantage Is Built

by James Gregory | 13/01/2026

AI creates real competitive advantage when it’s embedded in core business decisions and workflows – not just support functions. Here’s why leaders must rethink where AI is applied to unlock meaningful value.

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Continuous deployment to Azure Cloud Services

by Frans Lytzen | 12/11/2015

When you use Azure Websites you can do continuous deployment using Git, but with cloud services you can only do it from TFS. Luckily, it is quite easy to set up a Powershell script to deploy to Cloud Services. In this post I will share a sample script that can be used to deploy to multiple different environments, such as a UAT and a Live environment.

Using Azure Management Libraries from Azure Web Jobs

by Frans Lytzen | 12/11/2015

In this post I will show how to set up an Azure Web Job to automatically reboot a worker role at certain times. It's just an example, you can schedule pretty much any Azure operation in this way, including shutting down VMs at the end of the day etc.

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