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How Azure Cloud is shaping the future of cloud services

Source:-https://wire19.com/ Cloud computing is quickly gaining ground in the business world and Microsoft Azure is taking the lead. About 84% of enterprises had a multi-cloud strategy in 2019. Gartner’s Top Strategic Trends for 2021 has established that organizations require a strong AI strategy to make sure that their projects don’t stall. With cloud computing showing no signs of reducing in its application and Microsoft taking a strong lead, it is important to examine what Azure Cloud is and how it

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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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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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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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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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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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Bringing Source Code Security Up to Speed

Source:-https://securityboulevard.com/ In many ways, the DevOps movement is about removing complexity in the development process to increase release velocity and efficiency. While those abstractions may increase simplicity and narrow focus for developers, the pressure to adopt new tools and processes increases the complexity of securing DevOps infrastructure. Furthermore, DevOps culture empowers developers with a focus on increasing agility and removing roadblocks. However, when done without proper security precautions, this also opens the door to new risks. Challenges to Security While

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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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Microsoft rolls out Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux in India

Source:-https://www.expresscomputer.in Microsoft on Thursday announced the general availability of its Azure Hybrid Benefit solution for Linux customers in India. Azure Hybrid Benefit is a licensing benefit that helps organisations to cut the costs of running workloads in the cloud, Microsoft said. It helps customers “seamlessly” migrate to on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) virtual machines (VMs) to Microsoft Azure. The solution enables significant reduction in cost of running

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SAP : and Microsoft Partner to Run Supply Chain and Industry 4.0 in the Cloud

Source:-https://www.marketscreener.com SAP and Microsoft announced today an expanded partnership to enable customers to design and operate intelligent digital supply chain and Industry 4.0 solutions in the cloud and at the edge. The partnership, which includes a collaborative approach to standards, consortia, and open source, will shape the future of supply chain and manufacturing. SAP Digital Supply Chain and Industry 4.0 Solutions Run on Microsoft Azure As a result of this partnership, organizations will be able to use a comprehensive set

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Microsoft introduces Top Secret cloud

Source:-https://gcn.com Microsoft on Dec. 7 announced Azure Government Top Secret, a new cloud for Top Secret classified data, and outlined new features of Azure Government and the expansion of Azure Government Secret as part of its annual Government Leaders Summit. In a Microsoft Azure blog, Tom Keane, corporate vice president of Azure global, said Azure Government Top Secret, which has been undergoing federal accreditation, is designed to provide the same capabilities as the commercial version of Azure, Azure Government and

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Microsoft Azure Creates Top Secret Government Cloud As JEDI Battle Rages On

Source:-https://www.crn.com With the $10 billion Department of Defense JEDI cloud contract still in court, Microsoft launched a new cloud on Monday to serve government agencies with highly sensitive and classified data: the Azure Government Top Secret cloud. Tom Keane, corporate vice president for Microsoft Azure Global, said Microsoft has completed the buildout of new Azure Government Top Secret regions targeting the government’s most sensitive and classified workloads. The news comes as Microsoft and Amazon Web Services are tied up in

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Microsoft rolls out data governance service on Azure

Source:-https://www.infoworld.com Microsoft on December 3 introduced a preview of a cloud-based data governance service, called Azure Purview, to help organizations understand and manage their data. Free until January 1, Azure Purview automates the discovery and cataloging of data on-premises, in the cloud, and in SaaS applications. Information needed to govern data and assess compliance risks is gathered. Microsoft said the service enables the creation of a holistic, up-to-date map of the company’s entire data landscape. Billed as the next generation

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