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Microsoft Adds Single Sign-On Access for All Azure Active Directory Users

Source:-redmondmag.com Microsoft offered an overview of its recent Azure Active Directory release milestones, including free single sign-on access (SSO) for all of its online services subscribers, per a Thursday announcement. SSO is a facility for end users, allowing them to log in once and have access to various applications without having to go through the same identity verification process each time. If an organization has an Azure AD subscription, even the free version, then they can now use SSO with

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WHAT IS AZURE CONFIDENTIAL COMPUTING BUILT ON INTEL HARDWARE?

Source:-analyticsindiamag.com We know data security is a topic that should not be taken lightly, particularly when the majority of workloads have been shifted to the cloud. In a world where cloud platforms process payment transactions and financial records, security becomes paramount. Microsoft, with its Azure DCsv2-Series virtual machines (VMs), is now aiming to ensure data security via confidential computing. Microsoft is a part of Confidential Computing Consortium along with other large tech players. The whole idea behind confidential computing is

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AWS Narrowly Escapes Azure Defeat as Public Cloud Surges, Flexera Says

Source:-sdxcentral.com Public cloud adoption continues to accelerate at a rapid pace with the top three cloud providers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — maintaining their positions as they lead the charge, according to Flexera’s 2020 State of the Cloud report. The yearly benchmark assesses cloud adoption for insights into how organizations are progressing in their journey to the cloud. It includes their mix of public and private clouds, spend allocation, cost management, and

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Azure Insights: IoT; Web app security; Storage Accounts; Exam prep

Source:-msdynamicsworld.com April 20 2020 Microsoft Azure pros share their latest advice on working with Azure IoT, security for web apps, launching Storage Accounts and exam prep. Making sense of Azure IoT Writing on Build5Nines, Chris Pietschmann explored Azure IoT from the perspective of an admin. Many users are already familiar with the rose of IoT (short for Internet of Things), which adds network connectivity to sensors and industrial devices. Cloud technology has further expanded IoT, adding in an AI and

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Insights on Windows Azure : Advantages and Disadvantages

Source:-techiexpert.com Microsoft Azure continues to gain a massive following in the cloud-based infrastructure, as the world moves towards sustainable data storage facilities. It provides small and medium businesses with the required set of cloud services, giving the companies the freedom to deploy apps on a global network while sticking to their tools and framework. If you are wondering why you should choose the Windows Azure, we have listed all the advantages and disadvantages for your consideration. Advantages of Windows Azure

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Embracing the computing power of Azure

Source:-itweb.co.za South African companies can start realising significant business benefits now by utilising the high-performance computing capabilities of the locally available Microsoft Azure data centres – even if they haven’t migrated any data to the cloud yet! There is a range of capabilities available in Azure that simply do not exist in an on-premises environment at an equivalent price point – such as enterprise scale artificial intelligence. An organisation can easily get access to high-end computational services, such as Azure

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World Backup Day brings free Azure data protection offering from HYCU

Source:-siliconangle.com With ransomware threats on the rise and greater risk for a large user community now transacting business from home, World Backup Day on March 31 was a timely reminder that it’s better to be safe than sorry. HYCU Inc., the multicloud provider of backup and disaster recovery services, announced on March 31 that it would make its Azure data protection functionality free for the following three months in support of global efforts to protect critical data during the coronavirus

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Asleep at the wheel: Why did it take 5 HOURS for Microsoft to acknowledge an Azure DevOps TITSUP*?

Source:-theregister.co.uk We’ll have to wait until the US wakes up before we can answer that one In an impressively frank postmortem, Microsoft has admitted that at least part of its organisation was asleep at the wheel in a very real sense while its European DevOps tooling tottered. The travails of Azure during the current surge in usage are well-documented but, as well as showing the limits of cloudy tech, the pandemic-induced capacity constraints have also shown up some all too

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Intact Service Employs Containers to Migrate Desktop Apps to Azure

Source:-containerjournal.com Intact this week launched a ReAccess service through which it leverages microservices, functions and containers to migrate existing database applications based on Microsoft Access and other desktop databases to the Cosmos DB service running on the Microsoft Azure cloud. To facilitate the transition to ReAccess, Intact also unfurled a managed PowerLine cloud service for automating application delivery that ensures all data stored on the Azure cloud is automatically encrypted at rest. Company CEO J. Larry Aultman says that although many desktop

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Azure Active Directory Getting Custom Roles and MFA Improvements

Source:-redmondmag.com Microsoft this month announced a couple of Azure Active Directory improvements with regard to custom roles and multifactor authentication support that are available now and on the horizon. Custom Roles Preview This week Microsoft announced a preview of an easier way to create custom roles as part of the role-based access control (RBAC) feature of the Azure Active Directory identity and access management service. The preview of custom roles is available now in the Azure Portal. The RBAC feature

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Microsoft giving priority on Azure capacity to coronavirus response effort

Source:-crn.com.au Microsoft is not ruling out the possibility of Azure capacity constraints resulting from a spike in cloud computing demand amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. And in the event of any constraints, Microsoft is pledging to prioritize cloud capacity for first responders as well as health care and government organizations, the company said in a blog post. Keeping the Teams collaboration platform running is also a priority, the company said. “As demand continues to grow, if we are faced with

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Your occasional storage digest, featuring Rackspace, AWS, Nvidia Covid-19 initiatives and more

Source:-blocksandfiles.com The Covid-19 pandemic dominates this week’s storage roundup with Rackspace, Nvidia and AWS seeking to support researchers into the coronavirus. And in other news, Acronis is using Western Digital JBODs in its data centres and Huawei has notched up another storage benchmark. Finally, we have assembled items from CTERA, Igneous, iXsystems, NGD, Scale Computing and others to help while away your stay-at-home hours. Rackspace, AWS and Nvidia COVID-19 initiatives Rackspace has developed special offers to help customers affected by

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Azure Insights: Kubernetes API access; Firewall updates; Certifications; Cloud native and serverless

Source:-msdynamicsworld.com Microsoft Azure pros share their thoughts on security Kubernetes API access, Firewall updates in February, changes to certifications and the impact of cloud-native, serverless and containerized tech. Securing Kubernetes API access Richard Hooper, writing on Pixel Robots, explained how to secure access to the Kubernetes API on an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. By default, the API is internet accessible with HTTPS. Initially, Hooper cleared up any confusion for readers of his recent blogs pertaining to role-based access control

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Microsoft Azure has AWS hearing footsteps. It’s time you listened too.

Source:-thenextweb.com Get familiar with the fastest-growing cloud services platform around with this intensive Microsoft Azure 203 certification training for just $29.99. It’s strange to ever think of Microsoft as a little guy underdog in any arena, but as far as cloud computing goes, they’re still just one of the chasers trailing the monolithic market share grip of Amazon Web Services (AWS). But with Microsoft’s Azure not-so-quietly creeping from 14 percent of the cloud market in 2018 to almost 18 percent

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NZ Internal Affairs shifts RealMe citizen digital identity services to Azure

Source:-zdnet.com The RealMe Login and Assertion Services will be transitioned from a custom-made, legacy platform to a cloud-based platform by 30 June 2020. The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs will be shifting its citizen digital identity services to the cloud, with the “RealMe Login and Assertion Services” to be transitioned come June 30. CLOUD Cloud computing: Spending is breaking records, Microsoft Azure slowly closes the gap on AWS cto combine its Windows client and hardware teams under Chief Product

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AZURE DEVOPS: ULTIMATE TOOL TO MANAGE INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-A-CODE

Source:-techgenix.com Azure DevOps is the complete package and management tool to plan and track tasks and teams, version control of your code, automate deployments, testing, documentation, and much more. Sometimes it is overlooked by infrastructure professionals as the primary tool to manage Microsoft Azure. Azure DevOps can be the single location to manage all your subscriptions as infrastructure-as-a-code (IaaC) and save you time and money using an integrated tool with the Microsoft platform. In this article, we are going to

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Get to know cloud IoT services on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud

Source:-searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com Use this rundown of IoT offerings from AWS, Microsoft and Google to help decide which best suits your needs for collecting, processing and analyzing device data in the cloud. AWS, Microsoft and Google offer a range of cloud IoT services, as each tries to gain a foothold in this emerging market. It’s up to IT teams and entrepreneurs inside businesses to analyze what’s out there and determine which service best meets their needs. The IoT cloud market is roughly

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Azure Insights: Keda; Teams, Azure AD; VPN Gateway; 10 years of Azure

Source:-msdynamicsworld.com Azure pros share their thoughts on installing keda, controlling Teams with Azure AD, configuring Azure VPN Gateway, and the platform’s evolution. Deploying Keda In a recent blog post on Pixel Robots, Richard Hooper explored the role of keda, short for Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaler. Using custom resources such as ScaledObjects and TriggerAuthentication, it generates YAML files with parameters for scaling containers in a Kubernetes cluster. YAML files help to inform horizontal pod autoscalers. According to Hooper, users can install

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Windows Terminal and Azure Data Studio both get a tickle from the Microsoft update fairy

Source:-theregister.co.uk Microsoft flung out fresh updates to its cross-platform data wrangler Azure Data Studio, the Windows Terminal and continued to tease a standalone Windows Subsystem for Linux last night. The open-source Azure Data Studio gained better sign-in options for Azure Data Services – handy because, well, the hint is in the name of the product (although Microsoft does seem to have a penchant for slapping the “Azure” branding on pretty much everything these days). Faffing around with device codes was required in

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Azure Kubernetes (AKS) Security Best Practices – Part 1 of 4

Source:-securityboulevard.com Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), launched in June 2018, has become one of the most popular managed Kubernetes services. Like any infrastructure platform or Kubernetes service, though, the Azure customer has to make important decisions and formulate a plan for creating and maintaining secure AKS clusters. While many of these requirements and responsibilities apply to all Kubernetes clusters, regardless of where they are hosted, AKS also has some specific requirements that the platform users must consider and act on

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