Category: Thomas Maurer

May032022May 3, 2022May 3, 20220Commentby Thomas Maurer
Learn Live – Introduction to Azure Arc

Learn Live – Introduction to Azure Arc

Posted in Microsoft Azure, Thomas Maurer

As you know we are currently running the Learn Live Azure Hybrid Cloud Study Hall on Microsoft Learn TV. The first learn live episodes around our hybrid services with Azure Arc and Azure Stack HCI are now done and available on-demand.

In this Learn Live episode I had the chance to work with Microsoft Cloud Advocate Amy Colyer to go through the Introduction to Azure Arc learn module. Check out the recording here:

In this module, you’ll be able to describe Azure Arc enabled servers. You’ll also be able to describe Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. In this episode, you will:

  • Describe Azure Arc enabled servers.
  • Understand Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes.

I hope you enjoyed the Learn Live Introduction to Azure Arc session, if you want to learn more and check out the upcoming Learn Live Azure Hybrid Cloud Study Hall sessions, check out the main page on Microsoft Learn.


Apr292022April 29, 2022April 29, 20220Commentby Thomas Maurer
Learn Live - Introduction to Azure Stack

Learn Live – Introduction to Azure Stack (on-demand)

Posted in Microsoft Azure, Thomas Maurer

As you know we are currently running the Learn Live Azure Hybrid Cloud Study Hall on Microsoft Learn TV. The first learn live episodes around our hybrid services with Azure Arc and Azure Stack HCI are now done and available on-demand.

In this Learn Live episode I had the chance to work with Microsoft MVP Lisa Clark to go through the Introduction to Azure Stack learn module. Check out the recording here:

This module introduces you to the Azure Stack portfolio and describes basic architecture, core capabilities, and primary use cases of its products. You’ll also learn about differences and similarities between Azure Stack HCI, Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack Edge, and Azure. In this episode, you will:

  • Get an overview of the the Azure Stack portfolio
  • Understand basic architecture, core capabilities, and primary use cases of Azure Stack Hub
  • Describe basic architecture, core capabilities, and primary use cases of Azure Stack HCI
  • Learn the basic architecture, core capabilities, and primary use cases of Azure Stack Edge

I hope you enjoyed the Learn Live Introduction to Azure Stack session, if you want to learn more and check out the upcoming Learn Live Azure Hybrid Cloud Study Hall sessions, check out the main page on Microsoft Learn.


Apr212022April 21, 2022April 20, 20220Commentby Thomas Maurer
Onalytica - Whos Who in Cloud - Brand Employees

Honored To Be Listed In The Onalytica Who’s Who in Cloud Report

Posted in Awards, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Thomas Maurer

Onalytica just released their Who’s Who in Cloud Report. It is a great honor to be listed twice in the report, as brand employee and int the sub-topic hybrid cloud. Onalytica have been creating influencer lists for the last 10+ years, curating an influencer database of 1M influencers across 500+ topical communities within industries such as tech, finance, healthcare, education and many more.

Brand Employees

These are the influential Exec Leaders and Subject Matter Experts working for large Enterprise brands that are delivering solutions in the sector. They are visibly driving external engagement on their social channels around the topic of Cloud.

Onalytica - Whos Who in Cloud - Brand Employees
Onalytica – Whos Who in Cloud – Brand Employees

Hybrid Cloud (Sub-topics & Sectors)

The below sample of influencers amplify a lot of industry content, including third party content, on Hybrid Cloud. The topic is also one their main thought leadership topics, as per their Onalytica profile

Onalytica - Whos Who in Cloud - Hybrid Cloud
Onalytica – Whos Who in Cloud – Hybrid Cloud

Learn more and full report

If you want to see the full Onalytica Who’s Who in Cloud Report, you can download it here. If you want to learn more also check out my about page.

About Onalytica

Onalytica Provides consultancy-led Influencer Marketing software for industry & B2B marketing and communications professionals looking to identify and engage with social media influencers.

Onalytica’s software enables brands to implement and run structured Influencer Relationship Management programs with large Influencer Communities to improve brand awareness, perception and demand generation.

Founded in 2009, and backed by Bebo founders Michael and Paul Birch, Onalytica have created over 5,000 B2B and B2C Influencer programs for global clients which include Microsoft, Google, IBM, Coca-Cola, Amazon, Centrica and British Airways.

Onalytica are striving for this report to be a One-Stop Shop for the Movers & Shakers of the industry so any feedback to further improve the lists is always gratefully received.

The online Cloud conversation is vast, so this is a sample list of influential personas driving the discussion. If you would like to be considered for future lists, please feel free to contact!


Apr042022April 4, 2022April 4, 20220Commentby Thomas Maurer
Speaking at Azure Live 2022

Speaking at AzureLive 2022

Posted in Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Speaking, Thomas Maurer

I am proud to announce that I am speaking at AzureLive 2022 this year!

AzureLive 2022 is a brand new, single day event that will feature some of the best speakers and content the Azure community has to offer. Curious about the speakers? Click here.

AzureLive will cover technical topics like: Architecture, DevOps, Governance, Security, Serverless, AKS, AI and many more. Next to the technical talks, there will also be some IT Professional talks and Real-life Azure stories and examples. Grow your business and get real life examples. You will get the most (practical) insights from this event.

AzureLive 2022 will be hosted and presented from our online AzureLive Studio. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the speakers and attendees will be in the comfort of their homes viewing and attending online.

In my session I will be talking about hybrid and multicloud management with Azure using Azure Arc:

AZURE HYBRID – LEARN ABOUT HYBRID AND MULTICLOUD MANAGEMENT WITH AZURE

In this session, Senior Program Manager Azure Hybrid, Thomas Maurer will give you an overview of the Microsoft Azure Hybrid Cloud offering. Learn how you can use the Azure Hybrid services and products like Azure Arc, Defender for Cloud, Azure Update Management, the new Azure Stack portfolio, and many more to introduce hybrid cloud management to your environment.

Interested? You can get your ticket here.


Mar312022March 31, 2022April 26, 20222Commentsby Thomas Maurer
Microsoft Azure Edge Platform Customer and Partner Engineering - Azure Hybrid

Joining Azure CPE in Edge + Platform (Hybrid)

Posted in Microsoft, Thomas Maurer

Today, I am excited to announce that I am joining the Microsoft Azure Customer + Partner Engineering (CPE) team in Cloud + AI as a Senior Program Manager and Chief Evangelist Azure Hybrid working on Azure Hybrid (Azure.com/Hybrid).

Azure CPE in Edge + Platform (Hybrid)

The Azure CPE team drives adoption of the Azure edge + platform (hybrid) and provides an engineering-focused effort designed to improving the customer experience while improving service quality and credibility through customer success engagements, a rich partner engineering ecosystem, and enabling the technical field. I will be engaging with the community and customers around the world to share my knowledge and collect feedback to improve the Azure hybrid cloud and edge platform.

This means I will continue my work in helping customers with their hybrid and multi-cloud environments using Azure Arc, the Azure Stack portfolio, and many of our other hybrid cloud solutions.

Thank you

With that I want to give a big thank you to the Cloud Advocacy team, especially Rick Claus and the Modern Hybrid Infra team. In the past three years I had the chance to work with great minds, work on challenging projects, learn a lot, and have a lot of fun! I will definitely miss the team, but since I am not going far away, I am sure we will be collaborating a lot in the future.

Microsoft AzOps Team - Cloud Advocates - Modern Hybrid Infra
Microsoft AzOps Team – Cloud Advocates – Modern Hybrid Infra

I also want to thank the Azure CPE team and especially Duane Bourgeois for giving me the opportunity to join Azure Edge + Platform.

What’s next?

Azure CPE is a global team, with team members located in Redmond (USA), and many of us working remotely worldwide. I am looking forward to connecting with my team and plan the next steps.

I am excited to start on April 1st, 2022, and I am sure I will have a lot more to share and write in the future. Stay tuned and Azure on.


Mar012022March 1, 2022March 1, 20221Commentby Thomas Maurer
Veeam Vanguard 2022

Honored as a Veeam Vanguard 2022

Posted in Awards, Thomas Maurer

I feel honored, I just was informed that my 2022 Veeam Vanguard Renewal has been approved, and I got awarded my sixth Veeam Vanguard award. After being a Veeam Vanguard in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021 I am proud to be part of the Veeam Vanguard community in 2022 again.

The Veeam Vanguard Program is Veeam’s top-level influencer community. This group shares points of view, provides feedback, and is committed to mutual success. Experts in the Vanguard program are a combination of many different disciplines, contribution types and advocacy mechanisms yet are each the best in space regarding technical thought leadership for the technical communities in which Veeam exists.

These individuals have been nominated as Veeam Vanguards. A Veeam Vanguard represents our brand to the highest level in many of the different technology communities in which we engage. These individuals are chosen for their acumen, engagement, and style in their activities on and offline.

Veeam Vanguard

I am looking forward to being part of this community in this virtualization and cloud journey. I also want to thank Veeam, especially the Veeam Vanguard team, it is an honor to be part of the Veeam Vanguard community again.


Feb222022February 22, 2022February 22, 20220Commentby Thomas Maurer
Betatalks the podcast with Thomas Maurer

Betatalks podcast – Azure feedback, advocate of all new things & get certified

Posted in Certification, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Speaking, Thomas Maurer

I am happy to let you know that I was on the betatalks podcast, to talk about my job, the cloud and much more!

In this episode, we talk with Thomas Maurer about what keeps him busy on a day-to-day basis. He tells us the two most important aspects of his job as a Senior Cloud Advocate: creating & delivering content and bringing back feedback into the engineering world. He shares with us the way they gather feedback from customers and how they hunt for those gaps. Furthermore, we discuss the importance of staying on top of new things and why you should keep learning. Should there be an ‘Advocate of all new things’? We talk about Azure certifications, how he helps other people get certified, and the enrichment it gives when owning certain Azure certificates. And if he had the possibility, what would he disinvent?

Interested, check out the full Podcast episode here.

Betatalks Podcast Collecting Azure feedback, advocate of all new things & get certified – with Thomas Maurer

Feb212022February 21, 2022February 21, 20223Commentsby Thomas Maurer
Microsoft Certified Trainer MCT 2022-2023 - 5 years of MCT

Microsoft Certified Trainer MCT 2022-2023 – 5 years of MCT!

Posted in Awards, Certification, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Thomas Maurer

I just got confirmation that I am a Microsoft Certified Trainer MCT 2022-2023. After being a Microsoft Certified Trainer in 2017, 2019, and 2020-2021, 2021-2022, I am happy to be part of the MCT community for another year. In fact, this is my fifth year in the Microsoft Certified Trainer program! Being a Microsoft Certified Trainer is a great honor and I am happy to be part of this community.

What is a Microsoft Certified Trainer?

Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) are the premier technical and instructional experts in Microsoft technologies. Join this exclusive group of worldwide Microsoft technical training professionals and reap the benefits of MCT training certification and membership. You will get exclusive benefits as an MCT including access to the complete library of official Microsoft training and certification products, substantial discounts on exams, books, and Microsoft products. In addition, you will be able to use Microsoft readiness resources to help you enhance your training career and engage with other MCT members in an online community forum. You will also receive invitations to exclusive Microsoft and local MCT community events.
As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, you need to earn a Microsoft Certification validating your experience and knowledge in using Microsoft products and solutions for each course you deliver.

Source: Microsoft

Microsoft Certified Trainer 2022-2023
Microsoft Certified Trainer 2022-2023

If you want to know more about the Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) program, you can have a look at the following resources and pages:

If you want to know more about the latest Azure Certification and exams like AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-303, AZ-900, and many more, check out my blog posts.

I also wrote a couple of Microsoft certification exam study guides, which might help you as well.

You can find a general overview of the new Azure Certifications here. If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments.

I am happy to be a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for 2022-2023 again, let me know if you have any questions!


Jan282022January 28, 2022January 28, 20220Commentby Thomas Maurer
Azure Enablement Show Introduction to the hybrid and multicloud Scenario

Azure Enablement Show: Introduction to the hybrid and multicloud Scenario

Posted in Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Speaking, Thomas Maurer

Today I can announce a new episode of the Azure Enablement Show with an introduction to the hybrid and multicloud scenario and the landing zone accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled servers. In this video, I talked with Lior Kamrat about the new hybrid and multicloud scenario and how customers can take advantage of the Azure landing zone accelerator.

Also subscribe to my YouTube Channel!

Introduction to the hybrid and multicloud Scenario

As organizations adopt modern cloud services and as business requirements dictate, they may choose to run services in more than one public cloud service, known as hybrid and multicloud scenarios.

In this episode, Thomas and Lior discuss how Microsoft Azure features, such as landing zone accelerators, Azure Arc, and ArcBox can assist organizations configuring and deploying hybrid and multicloud environments.

0:00 Introduction
0:29 Why are hybrid and multicloud so important?
1:36 Whare are some of the solutions offered by Azure, such as Azure Arc?
3:14 What are scenarios?
4:44 What is included in the hybrid and multicloud scenario?
6:28 How does the landing zone accelerator fit into the conversation?
8:19 What is Azure ArcBox and how should customers use it?
10:38 Where can customers go to learn more?

Microsoft launches landing zone accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled servers

If you want to learn more Vijay Kumar (Director, Windows Server and Azure Product Marketing) wrote a blog post about the official launch of the landing zone accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled servers.

Today we’re launching the Azure Arc-enabled servers landing zone accelerator within the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework. The landing zone accelerator provides best practices, guidance, and automated reference implementations so that customers can get started with their deployments quickly and easily.

Azure Arc-enabled servers landing zone accelerator makes it easier for customers to increase security, governance, and compliance posture on servers that are deployed outside of Azure. Along with Azure Arc, services such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Sentinel, Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Policy, and many others are included in the reference implementations that can then be extended to production environments.

Microsoft launches landing zone accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled servers

Getting started

Hop over to the Hybrid and multicloud Cloud Adoption Framework page and explore the Azure Arc-enabled servers landing zone accelerator, the critical design areas, and sandbox automation.

Hybrid News:

You can also watch Liors and my livestream recording for the Hybrid and Multicloud news for Microsoft Ignite.

Resources

If you want to learn more, check out my other blog posts and feel free to ask you questions in the comments below.


Dec152021December 15, 2021December 15, 20211Commentby Thomas Maurer
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Summit 2021

Speaking at Microsoft Cloud Adoption Summit 2022

Posted in Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Speaking, Thomas Maurer

I am happy to let you know that I will be speaking at the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Summit 2022 which is a great event happening on January 19th 2022 to learn more about the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework. My session will be covering Hybrid and Multicloud architectures in the Architecture track.

The journey to the cloud is well underway for most organizations. Cloud adoption has become such an integral part of digital transformation that for many of us it is no longer possible to separate one from the other. But as organizations across the world embrace the cloud, how can they get the most out of their existing setups, and what are the best next steps to take?

The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Summit looks to explore these and other questions. Divided into three specialist tracks – strategy, architecture and operations – participants can decide where to focus their attention over 2.5 hours of inspiring, expert-led discussion and insight.

The summit brings together cross-industry cloud adoption experts to discuss:

  • Strategy – Explore the business challenges, risks and opportunities of cloud adoption from both a Microsoft and external partner perspective.
  • Architecture – What does a hybrid cloud architectures look like? And what are the benefits of zero-trust security architecture in the cloud? Find out from our experts.
  • Operations – Discover how to build a successful cloud operation model and explore the benefits of upskilling employees for cloud adoption.

The event also explores Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework – a set of guiding principles for organizations at every stage of their cloud adoption journeys.

Register today

Select and register to one of the 3 inspiring Specialist tracks below and start your cloud adoption journey now.

Microsoft Cloud Adoption Summit | Strategy Track – Strategy

Explore the business challenges, risks and opportunities of cloud adoption from both a Microsoft and external partner perspective.

Discover the agenda and register now

Microsoft Cloud Adoption Summit | Architecture Track

Architecture – What does a hybrid cloud architectures look like? And what are the benefits of zero-trust security architecture in the cloud? Find out from our experts.

Discover the agenda and register now

Microsoft Cloud Adoption Summit | Operations Track

Operations – Discover how to build a successful cloud operation model and explore the benefits of upskilling employees for cloud adoption.

Discover the agenda and register now


  • About Thomas Maurer

    Thomas Maurer

    My name is Thomas Maurer. I am a Senior Program Manager & Chief Evangelist for Azure Hybrid at Microsoft. I am part of the Azure engineering team (Cloud + AI) and engage with the community and customers around the world. Opinions are my own.

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