PARTNER, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
As Chief Technology Officer at SilverTech, Derek defines and drives the agency’s technology vision—helping clients harness data, digital platforms, and emerging technologies to solve complex business challenges and build meaningful, lasting customer relationships.
Known for finding solutions to the toughest and most complicated technology challenges, Derek combines innovation with deep expertise across enterprise architecture, cloud infrastructure, custom development, and big data. He brings a security-first mindset and a sharp focus on privacy and compliance, enabling organizations to build secure, scalable, and future-ready digital ecosystems.
Derek serves as a strategic adviser to both SilverTech’s technology partners and clients. He works closely with platform providers—often consulting on product roadmaps—to ensure solutions align with real-world business needs and deliver maximum value. He also helps client organizations develop and execute digital roadmaps that make the most of their existing systems and data, integrating legacy technologies with modern platforms where and when it makes sense to drive growth, stay competitive, and support long-term success.
Throughout his career, Derek has played a key role in shaping the tools and platforms that power modern digital marketing. He is a recognized authority and thought leader in the martech space—recently named a Kentico MVP and Progress Sitefinity Champion. Derek holds numerous certifications, including Kentico Developer, Kentico Marketer, Sitefinity Developer, and Sitecore Developer.
 
       
      
7/31/24
Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, providing on-demand Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions. It enables organizations to efficiently store and manage data, enhance cybersecurity and compliance, and rapidly develop and deploy complex web applications.
On Tuesday morning, users started expressing their inability to access several Microsoft 365 products such as Office, Outlook, and Azure. Microsoft themselves have confirmed that the nearly 10-hour long outage was the result of a distributed denial of service cyberattack (DDoS) which was triggered by an unexpected usage spike that halted services to a standstill.
The Azure portal itself was impacted including access to web hosting plans. Reported user-flagged issues with Azure App Services, Application Insights, Azure Log Search Alerts, Azure IoT Central, Microsoft Teams, Xbox Live and other services were also affected.
As of now, Microsoft and Microsoft Azure services are back up and running correctly. Microsoft says it will publish a Preliminary Post Incident Review within approximately 72 hours from the incident to assess and discuss the incident and what the recovery process looks like.
It is necessary for firms to have protection in place to prevent DDoS from having an impact. The initial DDoS attack had activated protection mechanisms, but an error in the implementation of defenses "amplified the impact of the attack rather than mitigating it," Microsoft admits.
Our support team is available to assist you with any concerns or questions. Please do not hesitate to reach out.
You can view the latest status update from Azure here.
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