Articles about Microsoft Azure – Page 4 of 6

Blockchain in the cloud: Microsoft and Amazon look to democratize the distributed ledger for developers

[Editor’s Note: Atul Ajoy is a 10th grader at Redmond High School, a tech enthusiast, startup founder, blogger and event organizer. He attended Microsoft Build in… Read More

How the rise of the internet of things prompted a new feature for Microsoft’s cloud database

Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB database was probably the most important thing it announced last year at Build, its annual conference… Read More

Azure CTO Mark Russinovich touts security during deep dive into the tech behind Microsoft’s cloud

Build 2018 attendees got a peek behind the Azure curtain Wednesday from Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich, who also… Read More

Red Hat and Microsoft teaming up for a managed OpenShift service on Azure

One day after Microsoft announced that its managed Kubernetes service is ready for the general public, Red Hat announced that… Read More

Microsoft’s Project Kinect for Azure is a package of sensors for IoT applications

Microsoft is bringing Kinect back this week at its Build developer conference, but in a very different fashion that the… Read More

Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud group posts a 17 percent jump in revenue on 93 percent growth for Azure

Cloud computing has been a strong part of Microsoft’s turnaround during CEO Satya Nadella’s tenure as CEO, and its Intelligent… Read More

Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances, which lets you deploy containers with utter disregard for hardware, now generally available

When is a container serverless? That question might sound like troll bait for infrastructure geeks, but Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances,… Read More

Microsoft rolls out the first availability zones within Azure regions to boost customer reliability

The first availability zones within Microsoft Azure’s cloud computing regions are coming online for everyone Friday, bringing additional reliability and… Read More

Microsoft puts more eggs in cloud leader Scott Guthrie’s basket, moving core Windows development and some AI teams to his group

Microsoft’s cloud business is the company’s economic engine these days, hitting aggressive revenue targets earlier than expected with plenty of… Read More

Aimed at the data center, Windows Server 2019 is almost all about the hybrid cloud

Microsoft is ready to talk about Windows Server 2019, the first fully-featured release of its server operating system since Windows… Read More

Microsoft plans its first Middle East data center for cloud customers, adds European capacity

Microsoft announced plans for its first cloud data centers in the Middle East Wednesday, hoping to bring capacity online in… Read More

Return of the JEDI: Why the cloud industry is closely eyeing a big Pentagon cloud contract

The Department of Defense is planning to have a cloud bake-off this year, soliciting proposals from the tech industry to… Read More

Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups

There’s no longer any point in ignoring the truth: during the age of open-source software, which was supposed to democratize… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reminds everyone that his company has in-house silicon expertise

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella trotted out many of his usual lines during an interview this morning, but, unprompted, also chose… Read More

Microsoft and Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi deepen ties with new AI and cloud partnership

Microsoft and Chinese electronics company Xiaomi agreed to a new strategic partnership focused on artificial and cloud technology, further cementing… Read More

Microsoft’s Guthrie claims Azure is seeing blockchain momentum, but that’s not moving the cloud needle any time soon

Microsoft Azure is seeing demand for cloud-based blockchain services, Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie said Friday, but it doesn’t sound… Read More

Microsoft’s Azure Event Grid, a management layer for serverless computing, now generally available

A key part of Microsoft’s strategy for serverless computing is ready for prime time. Azure Event Grid, first announced last… Read More

Who will pay for Meltdown and Spectre? Chip flaws could leave a financial mess in their wake

2018 greeted CIOs around the planet in quite rude fashion, following the revelation of two 20-year-old undiscovered security flaws in… Read More

A week later, the long-term impact of the Meltdown and Spectre chip flaws is starting to become clearer

Cloud users and data center managers began to understand the performance effects of the patches required by the Meltdown/Spectre chip… Read More

Updated: Cloud vendors secretly scramble to patch critical flaw in Intel chips, performance hits expected

Update 5:30pm: Intel held a press conference Wednesday afternoon after this was published, and several researchers released a lot more… Read More

Microsoft launches Azure Databricks, a new cloud data platform based on Apache Spark

Microsoft Azure customers interested in parsing large amounts of data to improve their businesses will soon be able to use… Read More

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich hears your cloud lock-in concerns, but it’s complicated

As the technology leader for the second-place cloud computing vendor, Microsoft’s Mark Russinovich has a keen interest in finding ways… Read More

Microsoft plans to triple Azure cloud computing capacity in China over the next six months

The company that operates Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing business in China is planning a huge increase in capacity heading into… Read More

New version of Microsoft’s Azure Container Service offers managed Kubernetes, with free clusters

Microsoft plans to step up its support for Kubernetes, announcing plans Tuesday for a new managed Kubernetes service that promises… Read More

Cray teams up with Microsoft to offer Azure customers new supercomputing options

Microsoft Azure cloud computing customers that would like to tap into true supercomputing power have a new option thanks to… Read More

Microsoft unveils Azure Government Secret to help U.S. agencies handle classified data

More and more government agencies are realizing the benefits of cloud computing, and Microsoft is poised to unveil several new… Read More

Report: The Pentagon plans to increase its use of cloud computing in security push

After his recent trip to the West Coast to check out how cloud tech companies are fending off cybersecurity attacks,… Read More

Microsoft Azure fire system glitch shows why everyone benefits from transparent cloud outage reports

Outage reports issued by most cloud companies tend to be meaningless exercises in brevity, designed by lawyers and put into… Read More

How Microsoft became a destination for a new generation of open-source developers

An old tongue-in-cheek journalism canard suggests that once something has happened three times, it’s a trend. Along those lines, when… Read More

Gartner: Amazon Web Services on top of the public cloud, as Alibaba gains the most ground

The top four major public cloud vendors all grew faster than the overall market last year, according to a new… Read More