Azure

Microsoft extends life support for aging Apache Cassandra 3.11 database

But only if you're ready to cozy up in Azure's abode

Databases10 Oct 2023 |

Amazon, Microsoft under UK regulator's eye as cloud market probe confirmed

Egress fees, interoperability and licensing discounts all in the crosshairs

PaaS + IaaS05 Oct 2023 | 5

Microsoft attempts to woo governments with Cloud for Sovereignty preview

Sovereignty = you’ll run on Azure and you’ll be told when our engineers access your resources

PaaS + IaaS04 Oct 2023 | 5

Microsoft kills classic Azure DaaS, because it isn't really Azure

Users get three-year deprecation and migration warning

On-Prem03 Oct 2023 | 11

Microsoft hiring a nuclear power program manager, because AI needs lots of 'leccy

Envisions a 'comprehensive small modular reactor and microreactor integration roadmap'

Off-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 35

Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure

At least it was the weekend

PaaS + IaaS18 Sep 2023 | 3

Oracle cloud hardware to reside in Azure datacenters – and Microsoft's good with that

Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella find a common enemy: latency that alows data moving from DBs to AIs

Off-Prem15 Sep 2023 | 7

Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage

Just three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind

Off-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 32

Microsoft concession: You can run our wares in AWS virtual desktop under 'revised policy'

Interest from antitrust regulators spurred action? Still a pricey option, says analyst, and change doesn't help Google or Alibaba customers

PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2023 | 6

Microsoft places huge cap-ex bets on datacenters for cloud and AI

CFO says paying customers expected to flood in from 2024

AI + ML28 Jul 2023 | 5

AI mentioned 175 times during Microsoft's Q4 earnings call

Are you sure that's an exec on the line? Also, smart move distracting folks from revenue growth slowdown, profit slide

AI + ML26 Jul 2023 | 2

Antitrust clouds continue to gather over Microsoft's European business

Regional trade group applies to partake in Germany's probe of Redmond's cloud software policies

Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 6

AWS and Azure own lion's share of $120B cloud infrastructure market

China's Alibaba comes in third followed by Google and Huawei

PaaS + IaaS18 Jul 2023 | 2

Microsoft 'fesses to code blunder in Azure Container Apps

Misconfiguration led to hours of pain for engineers as bootstrap service caught in a loop

Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 14

Goodbye Azure AD, Entra the drag on your time and money

Opinion Relic of the Ballmer years, we shall not see such marketing nonsense again… oh, hang on

Sysadmin Month17 Jul 2023 | 51

Microsoft's security roadmap: Protect secrets in Azure DevOps

You can’t steal what you can’t access ... we hope

Sysadmin Month16 Jul 2023 | 2

Infosec watchers: TeamTNT crew may blast holes in Azure, Google Cloud users

Why limit yourself to only stealing AWS credentials?

Cyber-crime15 Jul 2023 |

Teradata introduces LLMs to predictive analytics

But the outcome is far from certain

Sysadmin Month14 Jul 2023 | 4

Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change

Ditching it after a decade? Devs warn of the hours to correct documentation and chaos it'll cause

Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 | 130

Microsoft's Azure West Europe region blew away in freak summer storm

Network issues caused by nature's hilarious prank

PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2023 | 15

Microsoft Azure OpenAI lets enterprises feed corporate secrets to ChatGPT

Updated Apparently you're all dying to do this?

SaaS22 Jun 2023 | 22

Microsoft keeps quiet amid talk of possible DDoS attack against Azure

Telemetry revealed 'anomalous spike in HTTP requests' says post-incident report

PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2023 | 6

Microsoft’s Azure mishap betrays an industry blind to a big problem

Opinion If a tiny typo brings down half of Brazil, perhaps we’re the nuts

Software12 Jun 2023 | 80

CockroachDB hits Azure at last after five-year mission

Interview The database had to be architected from ground up, former GIMP dev Spencer Kimball tell us

Databases09 Jun 2023 | 2

Microsoft injects ChatGPT into 'secure' US government Azure cloud

What could possibly go wrong?

AI + ML08 Jun 2023 | 11

This typo sparked a Microsoft Azure outage

Errant code fix deleted entire servers rather than snapshots of database

Devops03 Jun 2023 | 89

Google shows cloud customers it's happy to have an open relationship

You can play the field and Chocolate Factory won't throw your stuff out

PaaS + IaaS02 Jun 2023 | 1

Google veep calls out Microsoft's cloud software licensing 'tax'

Exclusive Watchdogs are 'starting to understand the situation,' exec tells El Reg

Off-Prem01 Jun 2023 | 53

Get ready, Snowflakes: Azure AI is coming for you with one click

Ingest, integrate... and imprison

SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 6

Microsoft has made Azure Linux generally available. Repeat, Azure Linux

Come for the Kubernetes, stay for the containers

OSes26 May 2023 | 56

Microsoft rains more machine learning on Azure cloud

No surprise: Nvidia is in the picture

AI + ML25 May 2023 | 1

Microsoft offers electrical engineers a lifeline as it pursues custom cloud silicon

Redmond see, Redmond do... what AWS and Google are also doing

Systems19 May 2023 | 3

Microsoft decides it will be the one to choose which secure login method you use

Certificate-based authentication comes first and phones last

CSO18 May 2023 | 55

Microsoft tries a deeper dive into Azure Firewall traffic

If the flow slows, you need to know why

Off-Prem16 May 2023 | 3

EU monopoly cops probe complaints about Microsoft Azure

Over in the US, FTC panel on cloud homes in on restrictive software licensing

PaaS + IaaS16 May 2023 | 13

Developers now able to 'customize' their Azure Virtual Desktop experience

Build your own ‘golden images’ and then connect 'em to more stuff, says Microsoft

PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 1

Microsoft Azure CTO believes confidential computing is the future of targeted advertising

Wait... what?

PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 24

Microsoft touts bigger, faster Azure VMs as data deluge grows

NVMe storage should mean better performance for data-intensive workloads, says tech giant

Off-Prem04 May 2023 | 3

AMD reveals Azure is offering its SmartNICs as-a-service

Still smiling despite Q1 PC chip sales slumping 65 points and flat server sales

On-Prem03 May 2023 |

Microsoft makes Windows Server 2022 licenses a little less cynical

Addresses annoyances like 20-core VMs requiring 24 licenses

Software26 Apr 2023 | 23

Cloud projects keep being postponed amid economic uncertainty

OVH joins AWS, Microsoft and others in saying customer deals not dead... they're just resting

CxO19 Apr 2023 | 3

Microsoft opens up Defender threat intel library with file hash, URL search

Surprised there's no ChatGPT angle and that it's not called MalwareTotal

Security18 Apr 2023 | 1

Compatibility mess breaks not one but two Windows password tools

Windows LAPS and legacy LAPS don't play nicely under certain conditions, Microsoft says

CSO14 Apr 2023 | 6

Microsoft switches gears, keeps Exchange Online's CARs around until Sept 2024

At least Redmond listens to some customers

SaaS10 Apr 2023 | 1

Ofcom tempted to bring in competition watchdog to sniff the UK cloud market

As much as 80% in the hands of three companies – you can guess which

PaaS + IaaS05 Apr 2023 | 8

Unilever claims it's a 'cloud-only enterprise' – now with added OpenAI

Funny way to describe a company that makes toilet cleaner

CxO04 Apr 2023 | 15

Oh, really? Microsoft worries multicloud complicates security and identity

Coincidentally lays off techies in its identity team

Spotlight on RSA29 Mar 2023 | 8

CISA unleashes Untitled Goose Tool to honk at danger in Microsoft's cloud

Not a headline we expected to write today

CSO24 Mar 2023 | 11

Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change

Just lucky Western Europe was asleep when it happened

PaaS + IaaS23 Mar 2023 | 20

The Shakespearian question of our age: To cloud or not to cloud

Opinion Don't need flexibility and scaling? Then don’t pay for what you don’t need

PaaS + IaaS20 Mar 2023 | 66

Nutanix's cloudy clusters now officially at home in Azure

HCI upstart adds a hybrid option that could be of interest to nervous VMware customers

Virtualization14 Mar 2023 |

Here's how Microsoft hopes to inject ChatGPT into all your apps and bots via Azure

Stormy clouds ahead?

AI + ML11 Mar 2023 | 29

Microsoft rolls out tools and improvements to make its stuff more accessible

Inclusion is good business

Software10 Mar 2023 | 2

Microsoft wants you to build quantum apps in Azure, the cloud that's both up and down

Oh, and pay boatloads for the privilege

PaaS + IaaS09 Mar 2023 | 9

Microsoft opens Azure confidential containers to public preview

Security features in AMD Epyc chips push confidential computing effort

Devops03 Mar 2023 |

Seeing as GPT-3 is great at faking info, you should lean into that, says Microsoft

When AI gives you lemons, you make orangeade

AI + ML27 Feb 2023 | 26