Category Archives: Cloud

Is Power BI ready for the enterprise?

With the latest Power BI releases in mid-2016 Microsoft finally plugs the gap between on-premise Business Intelligence solutions and the cloud. On-premise enterprise BI solutions can now be re-used seamlessly with low level of development and infrastructure changes. If you would have asked Microsoft, they would probably have told you that Power BI was enterprise ready years… Read More »

Upload large files to Azure file share

This tutorial will describe howto upload large files to Azure file share using azCopy and PowerShell. First time I tried to upload large files to Azure I was a bit optimistic and tried to copy and paste my files directly through remote desktop. My files where database files with around 200gb of data using an internet connection… Read More »

Azure IO Performance

Cloud services are getting more and more mature. Before it was only a buzz but now everyone wants to get on the train. Flexibility, availability, pricing. So you are thinking about moving that database, datawarehouse or cubes to the cloud? On the Azure pricing list you can clearly see the number of CPU’s, memory, storage… Read More »

Power BI limitations & considerations

Please note that this post is regarding Power BI for Office 365 (the old experience) which will be deprecated by March 31, 2016. Although some some content might still be relevant. This is thought to be a technical introduction to Power BI limitations & considerations which hopefully will allow you to avoid most common implementation pitfalls. Please take into consideration that Power… Read More »