Tag: Azure

May 21, 2024

At its Build 2024 event in Seattle this week, Microsoft released updates to its cloud infrastructure to bolster support for all workloads, including AI-related ones. The updates includes new Azure virtual machines (VM), a new provisioning service, and options for […]

April 25, 2024

Buzz is building around the idea that it’s time to claw back our cloud services and once more rebuild the company data center. Repatriation. It’s the act of moving work out of cloud and back to on-premises or self-managed hardware. […]

February 1, 2024

One of the great advantages of using the public cloud is the ability to deploy applications and services at scale. But scale has a flip side, as working with dozens or hundreds of servers imposes new constraints on systems administration. […]

January 22, 2024

On November 15, Microsoft announced Azure AI Studio, a new platform for generative AI application development, using OpenAI models such as GPT-4, as well as models from Microsoft Research, Meta, Hugging Face, and others. The motivation for the product, Microsoft […]

November 7, 2023

Cloud environments offer businesses an array of advantages, from scalability to flexibility. Yet, as many organizations have discovered, these benefits don’t automatically equate to reduced costs. Navigating the intricacies of cloud billing can be challenging, leading to unexpected expenses. This […]

June 21, 2023

Oracle isn’t the only cloud service provider working toward data sovereignty solutions. Microsoft is making progress on an industry vertical for government and public sector customers it hopes to deploy later this year, and Google Cloud introduced a digital sovereignty […]

June 1, 2023

A fundamental decision for cloud security architects is how much to rely on the cloud-native security tools of their cloud provider, be it AWS, GCP, Azure, or any other provider. “As much as possible” is the wish of cloud engineers, […]

May 17, 2023

Financially motivated threat actor UNC3944 is using phishing and SIM swapping attacks to take over Microsoft Azure admin accounts and gain access to virtual machines (VM), according to cybersecurity firm Mandiant. Using access to virtual machines the attackers employed malicious […]

May 15, 2023

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud business has been targeted by the European Union’s antitrust arm, amid concerns the US software firm is leveraging its market power to squeeze out rivals. As part of an informal probe, regulators are quizzing competitors and […]

May 8, 2023

Microsoft’s decision to make Kubernetes a foundational service in Azure is paying off, not only for Microsoft but also for the rest of the Kubernetes ecosystem. That’s because the company is investing its engineers and money in more than its […]

April 26, 2023

Cloud continued to drive revenue for Microsoft, even as generative AI advances did more to boost the company’s profile during the first three months of the year. Overall revenues grew by 7% year over year. Microsoft’s reported only modest year-over-year […]

April 6, 2023

A senior Microsoft executive has laid out why benchmarking cloud PCs is an incredibly tricky process that, in many cases, just isn’t possible. In a recent blog post(opens in new tab), Microsoft Windows 365 Cloud PC and Azure Virtual Desktop […]

March 28, 2023

Mazes are a challenge – at least without a bird’s eye view. Authentication for technical accounts presents a similar challenge for cloud engineers. Technical accounts are the backbone of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and any form of process automation for IT […]

January 25, 2023

The growth curve for cloud is slowing for Microsoft, as economic realities force companies to shift investment patterns. In a natural cycling of business priorities, enterprises that underwent modernization are now focused on consolidation. That realignment accounts for a temporary […]

January 18, 2023

Microsoft has fixed vulnerabilities in four separate services of its Azure cloud platform, two of which could have allowed attackers to perform a server-side request forgery (SSRF) attack — and thus potentially execute remote code execution — even without authentication […]

December 15, 2022

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure continues to make its mark as a hyperscale cloud provider, even though it remains small compared to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. But the Big Three might want to watch out. For its fiscal […]

December 15, 2022

Microsoft has officially banned cryptomining within its Azure cloud services in a rather inconspicuous way. An update(opens in new tab) to its Universal License Terms for Online Services, which mainly applies to its cloud platform, states that “mining cryptocurrency is […]

November 7, 2022

Adoption of public cloud IaaS platforms like AWS and Azure, and PaaS and SaaS solutions too, has been driven in part by the simplicity of consuming the services: connect securely over the public internet and start spinning up resources. But […]

October 26, 2022

Microsoft has reported revenue for its first quarter of 2023 of $50.1bn, up 11% compared to the same quarter last year. However, net income was $17.6bn, a 14% decrease. The company said it had experienced “strong overall demand” for its […]

September 14, 2022

Two years ago, Microsoft launched its Azure Space initiative, focused on making Azure a strong player in the space- and satellite-connectivity cloud market. On September 14, timed with World Satellite Business Week, Microsoft officials are outlining how they plan to […]