Steve Hughes

Why Are People Moving to Azure Storage?

For this Azure Every Day, I sat down with one of Pragmatic Works Consulting Sales Managers, Matt Dunn, to ask him what he [...]

Steve Hughes April 10, 2018

Azure, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Azure Every Day, Azure Storage, Azure Blob Storage

Azure Storage - Hot, Cool and Archive

There’s a lot of talk about storage options. When working with customers, I often introduce them to Azure through storage, [...]

Steve Hughes April 4, 2018

Azure, Microsoft, Azure Every Day

How to Get Your Developers Using Azure

You know the talk out there, everyone is moving to the cloud and people are looking at Azure to get there. But many have [...]

Steve Hughes March 12, 2018

Azure, Microsoft, Azure Every Day

Why Separate Your Compute From Your Storage

There are many advantages to using Microsoft Azure. One big reason people look at Azure is for the advantage of having the [...]

Steve Hughes March 7, 2018

Azure, Microsoft, Azure Every Day

How Do Azure Subscriptions Work?

In this Azure Every Day installment, I’d like to talk about your organization’s subscription hierarchy. When working with [...]

Steve Hughes March 1, 2018

Azure, Microsoft, Azure Every Day

How Do Azure Accounts and Subscriptions Work Together?

Azure accounts vs. Azure subscriptions – often a topic that brings some confusion to Azure newbies. Are they the same? [...]

Steve Hughes February 22, 2018

Azure, Microsoft, Azure Every Day

ARM vs Classic Deployment in Azure

When Azure Resource Manager (ARM) was created back in 2014, I (like many) thought, “What does that mean?” Up until last [...]

Steve Hughes February 13, 2018

Big Data, Azure, Power BI, Azure Every Day

How Azure Storage Kick Starts Your Big Data Projects

So, your boss says, ‘Let’s do big data!’ And you think: ‘I don’t even know what that means or what I have to do. Do I need [...]

Steve Hughes February 9, 2018

Azure, Power BI, Free Training

Power BI and Data Security - Row Level Security (RLS)

As more enterprises adopt Power BI into their BI environment, questions still remain about data security. In his last [...]

Steve Hughes May 12, 2017

Azure, Power BI, Free Training

Power BI and Data Security - Data Classification

As more enterprises adopt Power BI into their BI environment, questions still remain about data security. In his last [...]

Steve Hughes May 5, 2017

Azure, Power BI, Free Training

Power BI and Data Security - On-Premises Data Gateway

As more enterprises adopt Power BI into their BI environment, questions still remain about data security. In his last [...]

Steve Hughes April 28, 2017

Azure, Power BI, Free Training

Power BI and Data Security - Sharing Data

As more enterprises adopt Power BI into their BI environment, questions still remain about data security. In his last [...]

Steve Hughes April 21, 2017

Azure, Power BI, Free Training

Power BI and Data Security - Compliance and Encryption

As Power BI becomes more prevalent in data analytics and visualization within the enterprise, data security becomes a [...]

Steve Hughes April 14, 2017

Excel, Excel at Excel

Exploring Excel 2013 for BI: Adding Calculated Measures

It's been a little while, but Steve Hughes is back for his latest blog in the Excel at Excel series. In this blog, he will [...]

Steve Hughes December 7, 2015

Excel, Excel at Excel

Exploring Excel 2013 for BI: Retaining PivotTable Size After Data Refreshes

We're back for another informative blog in our series, Excel at Excel with Steve Hughes! In this post, he will cover how to [...]

Steve Hughes October 22, 2015

Excel, Excel at Excel

Exploring Excel 2013 for BI: Cleaning-Up Slicers

Thank you again for reading our blog series Excel at Excel with Steve Hughes! In his previous tip, Steve showed you how to [...]

Steve Hughes September 16, 2015

Excel, Excel at Excel

Exploring Excel 2013 for BI: Adding a Slicer

Welcome back to our blog series Excel at Excel with Steve Hughes! In his previous posts, he's discussed using the Quick [...]

Steve Hughes August 14, 2015

Excel, Excel at Excel

Exploring Excel 2013 for BI: Flash Fill

Welcome back to our series, Excel at Excel, by Steve Hughes! In his last post, Steve discussed using the Show Details [...]

Steve Hughes July 30, 2015

SSAS, Excel, Excel at Excel

Exploring Excel 2013 for BI: Show Explore

Welcome back to our informative series on Excel by Steve Hughes! In his first post, he conquered the Quick Explore feature. [...]

Steve Hughes July 16, 2015

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