Azure Gets An Array Of Security Enhancements
The Ignite 2019 conference is in full flow, with Microsoft already having dropped a ton of goodies at the start of this event. And for the Azure cloud platform, …
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L’Oréal Selects Azure For Its Data Lake
L’Oréal, the cosmetics giant, has announced that it has created its data lake within a private Microsoft Azure environment to accelerate its research and development efforts. The company plans …
Big 3 Cloud Infrastructure Earnings Hit $22 Billion This Quarter
If you thought this quarter could not get any more impressive, then how is this for amazement. The combined cloud infrastructure earnings of the Big 3 cloud providers reached …
Azure Sphere Ready For Take Off In February 2020
Microsoft has officially confirmed that Azure Sphere, which started off as a Microsoft Research project, will be generally available starting next year. February 2020, rather. This, the software titan …
Azure IoT Central Amped Up With New IoT Capabilities
Microsoft has unveiled a whole array of upgrades to its Azure IoT Central platform that it launched in 2017 to make it easy for enterprises to connect IoT-enabled devices. …
Amazon May Fight Pentagon Decision To Choose Microsoft
The Empire Strikes Back? Don’t you just love a little politics mixed with your technology? Everyone does, apparently, as Amazon is looking to put up a fight against Pentagon …
Microsoft Wins $10 Billion JEDI Defense Contract
The Last Jedi? After two years of battle with the competition, Microsoft won the lucrative JEDI contract that will see the company provide cloud computing services to the US …
Azure Pricing In Australia To Be Pegged Against US Dollar
Yeouch! How are things Down Under? Could be better! Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to peg Azure pricing in Australia against the US dollar in a move …
Microsoft Azure Growth Rate Slows
As if anybody really expected anything different. After growing by leaps and bounds over the past few years, the Microsoft Azure platform saw its growth rate dip a bit. …
SAP Signs Huge Cloud Deal With Microsoft
Microsoft has signed huge cloud deal with SAP, good for the next three years, which will see the House of Azure helping customers of the German software giant bring …
Azure Is The First Cloud With Native FHIR Format Support
Microsoft Azure has another distinction to its name! In an effort to aid healthcare research, the cloud platform has become the first to support the FHIR format natively. The …
Microsoft Buys Mover To Simplify Cloud File Migration
Another week, another Microsoft acquisition. This time, the Redmond based software titan has added cloud file migration service Mover to its portfolio of acquisitions. This is a startup that …
Disney Will Make Movies With Microsoft
Disney is joining hands with Microsoft for a partnership centered around an innovation lab to find ways to shift content production to the Azure cloud. The movie production company …
Novartis To Use Microsoft AI For Drug Development
Novartis, the Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company, has teamed up with Microsoft to overcome drug development hurdles. Microsoft AI technology will be put to great use here. Basically, data scientists …
BlackBerry Solutions Reach The Azure Marketplace
BlackBerry has announced that announced that its industry-leading cybersecurity and secure communication solutions are now available via the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Azure customers will now have access to these …
Windows Virtual Desktop Is Now Generally Available
After years of development and months of hype, Microsoft has finally announced the general availability of the Windows Virtual Desktop service, which includes support for virtual Windows 7 desktops. …
How Azure Cloud Powers The New Flight Simulator
Back! After more than a decade! Some ten years after the end of Flight Simulator sales, Microsoft is gearing up to launch the most popular flight simulation game in …
Imprivata Unveils Cloud Identity And Access Management Tool
Imprivata, a leading healthcare IT security provider, has announced Imprivata Identity Governance for identity and access management with Azure Active Directory. This new tool is positioned for joint customers …
Save Big With New Reservation Plans For Azure Services
Microsoft continues to refine and fine tune its cloud offerings. The company has rolled out various improvements to its Azure services in the recent past, and it is in …
Reliance Jio Partners With Microsoft On Azure
Reliance Jio is all ready to foray into more businesses, and it has enlisted Microsoft Azure for help. The company already disrupted the telecom and features phone market in …
Amazon, Google Slam Microsoft For Raising Outsourcing Prices
The criticism came quick, and it came blunt! The drastic steps that Microsoft took to up the prices for outsourcing its software on rival cloud platforms invited some choice …
Microsoft Hikes Licensing Costs For Its Software On Rival Clouds
Expected? You bet. Microsoft has made some licensing changes recently, changes that make its software more expensive for customers on rival clouds. As in, those that rely on AWS, …
Azure Active Directory Basic Edition Being Phased Out
Simplification is the name of the game, and it seems Microsoft is playing it. The cloud giant is said to be cutting out the Basic edition from its Azure …
Cloud Infrastructure Services Spend Up By 37.6% In Q2 2019
Momentous. The worldwide spend on cloud infrastructure services grew by a very impressive 37.6% year-on-year in Q2 2019, to reach the mark of $26.3 billion. Registering an $7.2 billion …
Informatica Teams Up With Microsoft For Cloud Migration
Cloud migration isn’t the easiest task in the world. But it doesn’t have to be particularly hard either, as long as you have good help. Informatica is here to …
Azure Archive Storage Prices Drop By 50%
Hook me up with a couple of zettabytes! Microsoft continues to make updates to its cloud service almost every week, and this time Azure Archive Storage pricing got a …
Microsoft Invites Users To Attack Azure
Basically, to come and do their worst to the cloud platform. Microsoft doubled down on Azure security at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas that kicked off this …
Prometheus Integrates With Azure Monitor For Containers
Microsoft recently announced the integration of Prometheus with Azure Monitor for Containers, with this integration currently being available in preview form. Part of Cloud Native Compute Foundation, Prometheus is …
Azure Introduces Dedicated Servers
A server just for me, with no other tenant? Sign me up! Microsoft has finally introduced Azure Dedicated Host, a service for those seeking dedicated servers on the cloud …
Azure Unleashes New Cloud Tools For Media
Media and entertainment, the whole enchilada. SIGGRAPH 2019 in Los Angeles has brought good news for companies involved in media and entertainment, as Azure has spun up some new …