What is Azure?

Azure, also known as Microsoft Azure, is a cloud computing platform and set of services offered by Microsoft. It provides a wide range of cloud services that enable organizations to build, deploy, and manage applications and services through Microsoft’s global network of data centers. Azure offers both Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities, allowing businesses to choose the level of control and flexibility they need for their applications. Some of the benefits of using

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Microsoft Buys ReFirm Labs To Bolster Azure Defender for IoT

Source:-https://redmondmag.com/ Microsoft on Wednesday announced the acquisition of ReFirm Labs, a provider of security solutions for organizations using Internet of Things (IoT) and network edge devices. Fulton, Md.-based ReFirm Labs was founded by former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) hackers in 2017, producing security products for large enterprises and small-to-medium businesses. Its inception started earlier, in 2010, with the Binwalk Open Source project, designed to help security analysts extract firmware images from devices, according to a ReFirm Labs announcement. ReFirm’s

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Continuous Deployment Software Market to See Massive Growth by 2027| AWS, CircleCI, Ansible, Jenkins, Codeship, Semaphore, Travis CI, Azure, Bitrise, and more

Source:-https://soccernurds.com/ Global Continuous Deployment Software Market Research Report 2021 Global Continuous Deployment Software Market present insights on the current and future industry trends, enabling the readers to identify the products and services, hence driving the revenue growth and profitability. The research report provides a detailed analysis of all the major factors impacting the market on a global and regional scale, including drivers, constraints, threats, challenges, opportunities, and industry-specific trends. Further, the report cites global certainties and endorsements along with downstream

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Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop Commercially Released

Source:-https://redmondmag.com/ Microsoft announced last week that the ability to use Azure Monitor to monitor Windows Virtual Desktop environments is now at the “general availability” commercial-release stage. Windows Virtual Desktop is Microsoft’s virtual desktop infrastructure service, commercially launched in September 2019. It houses the operating systems (Windows 7 and Windows 10) and apps on Microsoft’s servers for remote access by end users. While Windows Virtual Desktop lets organizations have a more centralized management control over Windows apps and devices, which can

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VMware Cloud Universal Delivers Flexible Subscription for Multi-Cloud

Source:-https://www.thefastmode.com/ VMware last week unveiled VMware Cloud to help customers unlock the power of multi-cloud and deliver modern applications at the speed of business. VMware Cloud boosts developer productivity by enabling them to build and deploy to any cloud. The platform enables IT to modernize infrastructure and operations with better economics and less risk. With the launch of VMware Cloud, VMware also announced new offerings that bring a more integrated experience to customers. These offerings include: – VMware Cloud Universal:

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Schlumberger and Microsoft Expand Partnership to Bring Open, Enterprise-Scale Data Management to the Energy Industry

Source:-https://www.businesswireindia.com/ London, United Kingdom & Redmond, Wash., United States: Schlumberger and Microsoft announced an expanded strategic partnership to accelerate new technologies for the energy industry. The first offering, the Schlumberger Enterprise Data Management Solution for the OSDU Data Platform—a new industry standard for energy data—is available today. Energy companies will now benefit from an OSDU-compliant solution, and the ability to seamlessly connect to the DELFI* cognitive E&P environment from Schlumberger. The Enterprise Data Management Solution is ready for global customers

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QuerySurge is Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Source:-http://www.salamancapress.com/ NEW YORK, March 18, 2021 /CNW/ — QuerySurge today announced the availability of its enterprise data validation & testing solution in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use in the Azure cloud. QuerySurge customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure platform, with streamlined deployment & management and pay-as-you-go pricing. “We are excited to release QuerySurge in the Azure marketplace as a pay-as-you-go solution,” said Bill Hayduk, CEO of RTTS

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Microsoft to launch new Azure cloud region in China

Source:-https://www.expresscomputer.in/ In a bid to ramp up its cloud portfolio in China, Microsoft is planning to open a new Azure region in the country through its local operating partner, 21Vianet. The move comes amid growing demand for cloud services in China. This expansion is expected to effectively double the capacity of Microsoft’s intelligent cloud portfolio in China in the coming years, which includes Azure, Microsoft Office 365, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform operated by 21Vianet, Microsoft said in a blog

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IT Insight: Come together with cloud computing by Microsoft Azure

Source:-https://www.seacoastonline.com The biggest challenge we face, is the lack of our ability to come together. Because of this, the technology industry has seen a major shift toward cloud computing. Defined as a web-based computing model, cloud computing allows users to share information with other devices and computers instantly. This can allow multiple people to access the same files and data with minimal effort and can also give users the option to easily store large amounts of data. The way the

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Demand for AWS talent outpaces Azure, Google Cloud: reportDemand for AWS talent outpaces Azure, Google Cloud: report

Source:-https://www.ciodive.com/ Dive Brief IT leaders are eight times more likely to search for experts with AWS skills than Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure, according to data from Hired’s State of Software Engineers 2021 report, published Wednesday. The report examined thousands of candidate interview requests and salary data. Redux.js, Google Cloud, React.js and AWS skills top the list of most in-demand coding skills, according to the report. Demand for cloud skills grew as most companies turned to the cloud to

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Database as a Service Market 2021-2025: Top Companies Azure, Amazon, Zoho, Big Query, SimpleDB, Caspio, Kintone, IBM, Socrata, Backand, Intel, Fusioo, Matrix EDC, Novi, Zadara, Unify

Source;-https://neighborwebsj.com/ The latest market report Global Database as a Service Market report is a detailed research and statistical analysis given by IMR Research to offer a comprehensive and an in-depth study over the market with the help of regional demand estimation forecast, drivers, challenges, opportunities, threats, opportunities, etc. The report also contains Pre-Commodity pricing volatility where our experts composes a detailed study of the market in order to draw the inference that are in the market and deduce them to

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Microsoft Releases Application Guard for Office, Plus Azure Security Center and Azure Defender for IoT Products

Source:-https://redmondmag.com/ Microsoft this week described a few security products that have reached “general availability” (GA) or commercial-release status, while also touting its overall security-market position. Reaching GA are some Azure Security Center capabilities, Azure Defender for IoT and Application Guard for Office. These releases were announced on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Microsoft’s security-business prowess was highlighted in the company’s fiscal-year 2021 Q2 earning report given by Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO. He noted that Microsoft’s security solutions revenue recently surpassed $10 billion.

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Security researchers find Azure Functions vulnerability

Source:-https://www.securitymagazine.com/ Intezer researchers discovered a new vulnerability in Azure Functions, which would allow an attacker to escalate privileges and escape the Azure Functions Docker container to the Docker host. Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that allows users to run code without having to provision or manage infrastructure. Azure Functions is Microsoft’s equivalent to Amazon Web Services’ well-known Lambda service, says Intezer. After an internal assessment Microsoft has determined that the vulnerability has no security impact on Function users

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Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Grows 50 Percent, Xbox Sales Sees Boost During Pandemic

Source:-https://gadgets.ndtv.com/ Microsoft on Tuesday reported its Azure cloud computing services grew 50 percent, the second quarter of acceleration in a business that had begun to slow as the global pandemic benefited the software maker’s investment on working and learning from home. The company’s shares rose 5 percent in extended trading after gaining about 41 percent in 2020 as COVID-19 shifted computing to areas where the software maker has bet big. It also saw a surprise recovery in sales on the

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Microsoft Reports ‘Blowout’ Quarter As Azure Revenue Surges 50 Percent

Source:-https://www.crn.com/ Microsoft is seeing a re-acceleration of growth in its Azure cloud platform, which helped drive results that blew past Wall Street expectations for the company’s latest quarter. The Redmond, Wash.-based company on Tuesday reported that revenue for Azure spiked 50 percent during its fiscal second quarter of 2021, ended Dec. 31, compared to the same period a year earlier. That’s even faster growth than during Microsoft’s previous quarter sequentially, when Azure revenue had climbed 48 percent year-over-year. In total,

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Google Cloud has reportedly closed the performance gap on AWS and Azure

Source:-https://www.techradar.com/ The cloud computing landscape appears to be in rude health after new analysis found that the three industry heavyweights were all showing ongoing performance improvements. That’s according to the 2021 Cloud Report from Cockroach Labs, which claimed that Google Cloud has made up ground in a number of areas on rivals AWS and Microsoft Azure. “Working with each of the three major cloud providers, we worked to optimize all microbenchmarks to be more accurate and representative of real-world performance,”

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Reliance General Insurance uses Microsoft Azure AI-tech for rapid claim settlement

Source:-https://www.autocarpro.in The company says India is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing auto insurance markets, relies largely on traditional ways to renew policies and process repair claims, which usually required inspectors to physically look over vehicles and assess damages. This leads to a delay in the process of inspection, resulting in keeping the cars and policyholders off the road for longer. To mitigate this challenge, Reliance General Insurance collaborated with Celebal Technologies, a Microsoft partner, to create the new

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Microsoft working on Arm-based chips for Azure, Surface

Source:-https://www.crn.com.au Microsoft is reportedly designing Arm-based chips for Azure servers and some Surface PCs, signaling the computer giant’s increasing willingness to lower its reliance on Intel. Bloomberg reported Friday that the Redmond, Wash.-based company is working on in-house processor designs for its own servers that run Azure, mirroring an effort by Amazon Web Services, which has already began offering cloud instances using its own Arm-based server CPUs, Graviton. The news organization, which cited unnamed sources familiar with the plans, said

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How to Secure Azure Deployments

Source:-https://virtualizationreview.com That this year has been an interesting one for us in IT is an understatement. It’s been a very good year for public cloud though, with record growth in AWS and Azure. And for many businesses, the “digital transformation” journey towards the cloud has been highly accelerated. Maybe last year’s small proof-of-concept Azure deployments have grown into full-scale production resources. Or the inability to access your co-lo datacenter servers due to COVID-19 restrictions has forced a migration of VMs

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CloudKnox extends support for serverless functions on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

Source:-https://www.helpnetsecurity.com CloudKnox Security extended support for serverless functions on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The enhancement adds serverless functions to a substantial list of permissions management capabilities, including users, bots, service accounts, access keys, and other resources. The company also announced an integration with ServiceNow, the next step of many towards realizing CloudKnox’s next gen cloud security and permissions management vision. Together, the support for serverless functions and ServiceNow integration underscore CloudKnox’s market lead with

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