Managing applications using Azure AD, service principals and managed identities: A permissions story
by Carmel Eve
So, another year, another random blog topic change! This time we’ve left the world of Rx, and done a hop, skip and leap into Azure! Specifically, Azure AD, permissions and all things service principal. As part of a recent project we needed an Azure Functions App to have access to various Azure resources, including CosmosDB […]
How to plan your cloud transformation journey
by Howard van Rooijen
This week I received an email from someone who asked how they could use our free Thought Leadership content to help their organisation move to the cloud. I realised that although we’ve released a lot of content, we’d never talked publicly about the rationale behind them and how they are all interconnected. Our Thought Leadership […]
Benchmarking the Cloud against on-premise data centres
by Howard van Rooijen
Guest Blogger – Barry Smart IT Director & Partner, Hymans Robertson Barry is IT Director at Hymans Robertson, the largest independent firm of consultants and actuaries in the UK. He is responsible for leading the firm’s technology strategy. The firm is turning increasingly to technology to enhance and extend the services it provides to clients. […]
Automating office security with Synology, Surveillance Station, OneDrive and Microsoft Flow
by Mike Larah
tl;dr – I set up automated backups of our office security camera footage and used Microsoft Flow to automate alerting if anything went wrong. At endjin HQ, we have an office security setup using multiple cameras managed by Surveillance Station, an application on our on-site Synology NAS drive. Surveillance Station handles the recording schedules and stores […]
AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform – Networking
by Jess Panni
Choosing the right cloud platform provider can be a daunting task. Take the big three, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform; each offer a huge number of products and services, but understanding how they enable your specific needs is not easy. Since most organisations plan to migrate existing applications it is important to understand how […]
Cloud Adoption: A Deep Dive into the Swiss Cheese Model
by Howard van Rooijen
Guest Blogger – Barry Smart IT Director & Partner, Hymans Robertson Barry is IT Director at Hymans Robertson, the largest independent firm of consultants and actuaries in the UK. He is responsible for leading the firm’s technology strategy. The firm is turning increasingly to technology to enhance and extend the services it provides to clients. […]
Cloud Adoption: Risks & Mitigations Analysis
by Howard van Rooijen
Guest Blogger – Barry Smart IT Director & Partner, Hymans Robertson Barry is IT Director at Hymans Robertson, the largest independent firm of consultants and actuaries in the UK. He is responsible for leading the firm’s technology strategy. The firm is turning increasingly to technology to enhance and extend the services it provides to clients. […]
Embracing Disruption – Financial Services and the Microsoft Cloud
by Howard van Rooijen
We produced a booklet to coincide with our Future Decoded talk “The 100 Year Start-up: Embracing Disruption in Financial Services“, where we examine the challenges and opportunities in the Microsoft Cloud for the Financial Services Industry, covering the following topics: Security, Privacy & Data Sovereignty Data Ingestion, Transformation & Enrichment Big Compute Big Data – […]
FinTech Week – Why is blockchain revolutionising Financial Services?
by Matthew Adams
This continues Endjin’s series on FinTech as part of #fintechweek Today, we are talking about the blockchain. There is a lot of hype about the blockchain – usually wrapped up with talk about Bitcoin, crypto-currencies and people being arrested in Japan. But when you cut through the hype, there is a underlying reality that will […]
FinTech Week – Regulatory Compliance and Cloud Adoption
by Matthew Adams
This continues Endjin’s series on FinTech as part of #fintechweek Today, we are talking about regulatory compliance and the Cloud. The FCA has just closed its consultation on guidance for the adoption of Cloud services by financial institutions. Although these guidelines are specifically targeted at FS, they are worth reviewing by any organization that handles […]