About
I build and run cloud infrastructure for organisations that can't afford to get it wrong.
I’m Dennis, a Hybrid Cloud Consultant at ANS. A lot of my work these days lives in Azure networking and Azure VMware Solution — but I came up through VMware, and that grounding still shapes how I think about everything I build.
Most of what I do lands where uptime and security genuinely matter: healthcare — including the NHS — finance and housing. That means VCF platforms, FortiGate firewalls, and the unglamorous networking that quietly holds an estate together.
Lately I’ve been poking at where AI fits into infrastructure work, and — like most people who do this for real — I learn the most in my homelab, where breaking things is free.
AzureToZ is just where I write it down. No grand thesis — notes from the work, A to Z.
Focus
Azure networking
Hub-and-spoke, routing and the plumbing that keeps cloud estates connected.
Azure VMware Solution
Bringing VMware workloads into Azure without re-platforming everything.
VMware & VCF
Cloud Foundation platforms for organisations that run their own kit.
Network security
FortiGate firewalls and the edges between trust zones.
AI, slowly
Working out where it actually earns its place in infrastructure.
Homelab
Where most of the real learning happens, on my own time.