September 14, 2019 bestdevops Microsoft Leave a comment

At a High Level: Microsoft Azure vs. Google Cloud Platform

Source: eweek.com eWEEK PRODUCT COMPARISON RESOURCE PAGE: We take a close look at two of the three largest cloud services providers in the world: Microsoft Azure (16 percent of the world market) and Google Cloud Platform (8 percent). The latest information in the cloud markets here in mid-2019 is that 94 percent of all business organizations have at least one cloud-based application handling secure business data, and that about 84 percent have a multi-cloud strategy in place (Flexera “State of

September 11, 2019 bestdevops DevOps, Microsoft Leave a comment

Clippy lives again as a software developer brings the Microsoft assistant to the Mac

Source:- cnbc.com Clippy, Microsoft’s love-it-or-hate-it virtual assistant that debuted in the 1990s, has come back to life as a free application for Apple’s MacOS. The resuscitation capitalizes on people’s memories of bygone software from Microsoft, which last year recaptured the title of world’s most valuable public company as it becomes more centered on subscriptions and cloud services. Devran “Cosmo” Ünal, senior product engineer at optics company Zeiss Group, released the software on the Microsoft-owned GitHub code-storage website last week, and

September 9, 2019 bestdevops Microsoft Leave a comment

Ingram Micro offers its global network of service providers access to OPAQ’s cloud platform

Source: helpnetsecurity.com OPAQ, the network security cloud company, and Ingram Micro, the world’s leading technology and supply chain service provider, announced a global distribution agreement for the OPAQ cloud platform. As part of the agreement, Ingram Micro and Cloud Harmonics, an Ingram Micro company, will offer its vast global network of service providers, including VARs, MSPs and MSSPs access to the OPAQ cloud platform. Available now, OPAQ’s cloud platform is purpose-built for delivering Fortune 100-grade network security-as-a-service and hyperscale performance to

September 7, 2019 bestdevops Microsoft Leave a comment

Microsoft releases first preview of PowerToys utilities for Windows 10

Source: onmsft.com Microsoft is letting Windows Insiders know that they can get their hands on the first preview code release of it PowerToys starting September 5, 2019. While not the power saw or sandblaster as the name might imply, Microsoft’s PowerToys are instead a set of utilities designed for use by “power users” to help streamline the Windows experience and boost productivity that dates back to the Windows 95 era. Back in 1995, well adept Windows users were handed the first version

September 6, 2019 bestdevops Microsoft Leave a comment

Microsoft to acquire cloud migration tool provider Movere

Source:cloudcomputing-news.net Microsoft is to acquire Movere, a SaaS platform which increases visibility on IT environments, the companies have announced. Movere – whom industry watchers may remember until last year as Unified Logic – aims to ‘capture, integrate and analyse the data [companies] need to make smart decisions about their IT environment’, as the company puts it. The company’s dashboard organically scans global environments at a highest rate of 1,000 servers per hour and focuses across multiple parts of the cloud

August 30, 2019 bestdevops Microsoft Leave a comment

Oracle and Microsoft Expand Their Multicloud Alliance to the London Region

Source: oracle.com In June, Microsoft and Oracle jointly announced an industry-first multicloud collaboration. This collaboration enables customers to interconnect the two company’s clouds and simplify management for IT environments and individual applications that span both clouds. Since the announcement, we’ve been excited, but not surprised, by the volume of joint Microsoft and Oracle customers who are interested in creating innovative multicloud solutions. To meet customer demand, we’re expanding availability to more regions. We’re excited to announce that today we’re extending

August 28, 2019 bestdevops Microsoft Leave a comment

Microsoft Releases Azure Ultra Disk Storage to General Availability

Source: infoq.com In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage – a new Managed Disks offering, which delivers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency for the most demanding Azure Virtual Machines and container workloads. Microsoft first launched the Azure Ultra Disk Storage service as a preview last year in September in the East US2 region. Now the tech giant offers this type of solid-state drive (SSD) storage service commercially – providing

August 26, 2019 bestdevops Microsoft Leave a comment

Microsoft Partners With Google, Intel, And Others To Form Data Protection Consortium

Source: techtimes.com Microsoft is teaming up with fellow giants in the tech industry to form a global consortium that would ensure the security of private data The software maker joined Google Cloud, Intel, IBM, Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, Red Hat, Swisscom, and Tencent to establish the Confidential Computing Consortium, a group committed to providing better private data protection, promoting the use of confidential computing, and advancing open source standards among members of the technology community. Formed in partnership with The Linux Foundation,

August 20, 2019 bestdevops Azure, Microsoft Leave a comment

Microsoft acquires JClarity to bolster Java workloads on Azure

Source : venturebeat.com Microsoft today announced that it has acquired JClarity, leading contributor to the AdoptOpenJDK project, for an undisclosed amount. In a blog post published this morning, VP of program management for developer tools and services John Montgomery said the purchase will bolster Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform by increasing performance for Java workloads. “Microsoft Azure and JClarity engineers will be working together to make Azure a better platform for our Java customers and internal teams, improving the experience

August 19, 2019 bestdevops Microsoft Leave a comment

Nucleus Cyber becomes a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association

Sourec: helpnetsecurity.com Nucleus Cyber, the intelligent data-centric security company for the modern workplace, announced it has become a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association to work together to defend customers against increasingly sophisticated, fast-moving threats. Joining The Association provides recognition of the expanded capabilities in Nucleus Cyber’s products that leverage key Microsoft security technologies to provide fine-grained, data-centric security for customer collaboration in Microsoft Office 365 applications such as Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint. As a result, customers benefit from

August 12, 2019 bestdevops Microsoft, Splunk, Vmware Leave a comment

Global IT Operations Analytics Market 2019 – 2025 Splunk, AppDynamics, ExtraHop, Microsoft, VMware, Nexthink, AccelOps, Evolven

Source: marketresearchjournal.us Global “IT Operations Analytics Market” 2019 research document on the IT Operations Analytics market provides a precise outline and the concepts of the dynamic in the international IT Operations Analytics market. The entire research report offers value in terms of sectional review and evaluates on the global IT Operations Analytics market across regional levels as well as from a global viewpoint. The report contains widespread conceptual study for IT Operations Analytics, which will help the customer to discover

August 12, 2019 bestdevops Microsoft, Software Leave a comment

Global Server Management Software Market Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast 2019-2026: Datadog, SolarWinds MSP, ManageEngine, Microsoft, BMC Software

Source: bunburymail.com The “Server Management Software market” report offers a deep study of the market for the forecast period. According to the report, the global Server Management Software market is likely to develop at higher CAGR. This report categories the Server Management Software market based on regions, application, manufacturers, and type. The rising competitiveness in the global market has lead to whooping and huge investments in R&D from private as well as government bodies. Hence, the leading market players Datadog,

August 10, 2019 bestdevops Microsoft Leave a comment

Microsoft rolls GitHub into CI/CD space

Source: devclass.com GitHub has extended its still in beta Actions service into the CI/CD space, arguably positioning itself as an end to end DevOps platform and rattling traditional CI/CD providers. GitHub introduced Actions last year, shortly before the repo manager was taken over by Microsoft. At the time Actions was billed as a tool for configuring workflows. However, it’s been long expected that the firm would extend the feature into the Continuous Integration and Delivery space. Yesterday, it confirmed the

August 9, 2019 bestdevops AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Leave a comment

Google Cloud and AWS execs slam Microsoft over changes to cloud licensing

Source: channelweb.co.uk Microsoft says customers will no longer be able to use their on-prem licences when moving to single-tenanted public cloud servers Senior execs from Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have slammed Microsoft over changes to how it charges customers using its software on other public clouds. Microsoft announced that it would be changing how its customers can use their on-prem licences on the dedicated servers from four cloud providers: AWS, Alibaba, Amazon and Google, plus Microsoft itself. It twinned

August 8, 2019 bestdevops Continuous Inspection, Microsoft Leave a comment

CircleCI brings its continuous integration to Microsoft programmers for first time

Source: techcrunch.com CircleCI has been supporting continuous integration for Linux and Mac programmers for some time, but up until today, Microsoft developers have been left on the outside looking in. Today, the company changed that, announcing new support for Microsoft programmers using Windows Server 2019. CircleCI, which announced a $56 million Series D investment last month, is surely looking for ways to expand its market reach, and providing support for Microsoft programmers is a good place to start, as it

August 7, 2019 bestdevops Global market, Google Cloud, Microsoft Leave a comment

Global IaaS & PaaS Market 2019 – Microsoft, IBM, Aliyun, Google Cloud Platform, Salesforce, Rackspace, SAP, Oracle

Source: market-news24.com Global IaaS & PaaS Market 2019 report offers incisive information in a detailed manner related to key aspects of the market that are expected to have a computable impact on developmental prospects of the market over the forecast period. The major growth drivers, challenges, and trends prompting the market are examined thoroughly. An in-depth qualitative and quantitative data in relevance with projected impact of these factors on market’s future growth prospects are exhibited in the report. Key players in the

August 6, 2019 bestdevops GitHub, Microsoft Leave a comment

Microsoft MSDN Magazine Nears End Of Publication Forcing Developers To Online MS Doc and GitHub For Solutions And Resources

Source: appuals.com Microsoft has decided to stop the publication of a journal that was dedicated to developers who worked on the software and platforms developed by the company. The Microsoft MSDN Magazine, which started its journey over three decades ago, offered technical guidance to the Microsoft developer community. Microsoft will stop the publication of the magazine this year itself. It is not clear why the company has chosen to shutter the publication that successfully managed to establish strong credibility within

August 5, 2019 bestdevops Azure, Microsoft Leave a comment

Microsoft Launches Massive Private Cloud Server Service In Azure

Source: ibtimes.com Microsoft Azure’s now has a new service that allows users to run virtual machines to run a single-tenant physical server. With this new feature, people can now use the cloud storage of Azure to run a private server. This new feature is called the Azure Dedicated Host. The Azure Dedicated Host is great for businesses who want to store data on a server but doesn’t want to share it with other servers. This practice prevents chances of data

August 3, 2019 bestdevops Microsoft, Servicenow Leave a comment

ServiceNow Bets Big on Microsoft and Mobile for Next Growth Spurt

Source: cloudwars.co Having posted $3 billion in revenue for the past 12 months, ServiceNow is banking on some powerful new mobile applications plus a deep new partnership with industry leader Microsoft to trigger its next phase of growth. While CEO John Donahoe cited a number of factors for the company’s sustained performance, I was most interested in the company’s forward-looking focus on mobile solutions and its force-multiplying deal with Microsoft. Here’s why: The Move to Mobile Donahoe made a very

August 3, 2019 bestdevops Azure, Microsoft Leave a comment

Microsoft Azure now lets you set up your own private servers

Source: www.techradar.com Microsoft has announced the preview launch of a new cloud service called that will allow customers to run their virtual machines on single-tenant physical services. The company says that Azure Dedicated Host could be quite useful for businesses running loads of virtual machines that don’t want to share resources on their server with anyone else while also gaining full control over everything running on the machine Azure already offers isolated virtual machines sizes for two very large virtual machine types. These

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