Azure

Microsoft revenue up by a fifth as world shuffles through the pandemic into the metaverse

Cloud the top earner as usual but Redmond is doubling down on gaming

Software26 Jan 2022 | 8

UKCloud acquired: Public sector specialist finally bags investment from current chair and private equity after reporting steep losses

Updated Wolves no longer at the door of struggling Brit cloud slinger

PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2022 | 21

UK regulators to scrutinise cloud resilience in response to financial services sector's reliance on the fluffy stuff

Bank of England watchdog seeks 'more oversight' into 'critical third parties', eyes up outages and cyber attacks

PaaS + IaaS11 Jan 2022 | 17

Microsoft pushes ahead adapting Azure for 5G telecoms after swallowing AT&T's Network Cloud

Analysis But is the telco backing itself into a corner?

Networks05 Jan 2022 | 3

Four years: That's how long Azure's App Service had a source code leak bug

Firm that found the flaw also spotted ChaosDB and OMIGOD, confident this one’s been exploited

Security24 Dec 2021 | 7

British watchdog begins probing Microsoft's acquisition of AI speech specialist Nuance

You have until 10 January to make your feelings felt

AI + ML13 Dec 2021 | 3

Alibaba the biggest, but more clouds on China's horizon

Huawei, Tencent, and Baidu all growing fast, and Americlouds are about to expand

PaaS + IaaS09 Dec 2021 |

Microsoft extends Secured-core concept to servers

Certifies hardware with malware-crimping spec, already common in PCs, for Azure Stack and Windows Server

Security08 Dec 2021 | 6

Microsoft extends 'outage mode' for Azure Active Directory to bake more resilience into cloudy services

But Redmond has bigger questions to answer regarding Azure architecture

PaaS + IaaS24 Nov 2021 | 13

Patching Windows Server without needing to reboot is a handy feature – but it's only available on Azure

Trampolines and Retpoline: Applying patches at the function level

OSes23 Nov 2021 | 15

Microsoft previews Azure App Service Automatic Scaling, for when defining your own rules is too much like hard work

What could possibly go wrong?

PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2021 | 5

Unit4 releases connector mesh as it sinks deeper into Microsoft's 'grizzly bear' hug

Vertical differentiation helps users see the wood from the trees

Databases17 Nov 2021 | 2

ChaosDB: Infosec bods could pull anyone's plaintext Azure Cosmos DB keys at will from Microsoft admin tools

Black Hat Europe And they had a wildcard cert too. Still feeling secure?

Security12 Nov 2021 | 11

Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Stack HCI – for those who want cloudy remote desktops hosted on-prem

Ignite We drill into what's available in this public preview

PaaS + IaaS04 Nov 2021 |

If you're deemed cool enough, Microsoft will offer you access to Azure-based GPT-3

Ignite Text'n'code-emitting system still available from OpenAI

AI + ML03 Nov 2021 | 2

How about a big dollop of Azure with that database engine? Microsoft opens up SQL Server 2022 preview

Ignite The direction of travel is clear – cloudwards

Databases02 Nov 2021 | 2

Microsoft wins JEDI contract, Amazon complains. Amazon wins NSA contract, watchdog says Microsoft right to moan

US Government Audit Office upholds Redmond's protest

PaaS + IaaS01 Nov 2021 | 12

Want to deploy a new Windows VM on Microsoft Azure? Today might not be your lucky day

Users running non-Windows VMs or existing deployment not affected

Virtualization13 Oct 2021 | 7

Azure Purview is a preview no more: Microsoft is ready to sniff your sensitive data

Governance and compliance are the watchwords here

Legal28 Sep 2021 | 4

WTF? Microsoft makes fixing deadly OMIGOD flaws on Azure your job

Clouds usually fix this sort of thing before bugs go public. This time it's best to assume you need to do this yourself

Security17 Sep 2021 | 32

Microsoft fixes flaw that could leak data between users of Azure container services

No data went awry, Cosmos DB had a similar bug just two weeks ago

Security09 Sep 2021 | 3

Microsoft Azure deprecations: API changes will break applications and PowerShell scripts

Mark your diaries: 1 July 2022 is when stuff stops working

Off-Prem03 Sep 2021 | 19

Microsoft sinks standalone Hyper-V Server, wants you using Azure Stack HCI for VM-wrangling

Analysis Yet again, Microsoft tries to make your world more Azure-centric

Virtualization31 Aug 2021 | 20

Azure's now-fixed Cosmos DB flaw could have been exploited to read, write any database

Microsoft warns customers of ChaosDB hole that lay dormant for months

Security27 Aug 2021 | 13

Microsoft reminds Azure App Service users that community support for Java 7 ends soon – shift to version 8 or beyond

This is your one-year warning

Applications26 Aug 2021 |

Microsoft slaps on some new Paint and previews Windows 11 on Azure

Look away from those price rises and look at our new toys!

Software20 Aug 2021 | 13

Edgy: HPE's first message from the International Space Station to Microsoft's Azure? 'hello world'

Supercomputing above the clouds

Edge + IoT19 Aug 2021 | 10

El Reg talks to Azure Data veep as Microsoft flicks the switch on Azure Arc for SQL Managed Instances

Interview Longevity, PostgreSQL, and 'the default relational database of choice'

SaaS11 Aug 2021 | 10

UK's Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency signs £15m in cloud contracts

AWS and Azure cruise into government agency

Off-Prem09 Aug 2021 | 7

Stack Overflow survey: Microsoft IDEs dominate, GCP and Azure battle behind AWS

Most-used language? JavaScript, of course – though for a big salary, try Clojure

Devops03 Aug 2021 | 24

'$6 in every $10' spent on cloud infrastructure is with AWS, Microsoft, or Google

Fewer and fewer orgs want to run their own data centre

PaaS + IaaS30 Jul 2021 | 18

Microsoft abandons semi-annual releases for Windows Server

Special capabilities on Azure leaving on-premises users behind

Systems28 Jul 2021 | 24

Microsoft reveals pay-to-Ping plan for advanced Azure availability testing

Does charging for Ping pong? Maybe not in this case, as Microsoft's plan covers 'Standard Ping tests' that are quite advanced

PaaS + IaaS16 Jul 2021 | 7

It had to happen: Microsoft's cloudy Windows 365 desktops are due to land next month

The good: It's a Windows PC running in the cloud. The bad: It's a Windows PC running in the cloud

SaaS14 Jul 2021 | 83

Microsoft hooks up with MITRE to map Azure's ATT&CK surface for 'proactive security'

Amazon's AWS next cloud platform in line for adversarial tactics framework

Security30 Jun 2021 |

Windows Server 2022: Azure Edition slips into Public Preview

Come for a dip in our cloud, the SMB over QUIC is lovely

Systems25 Jun 2021 | 5

Hyper-V bug that could crash 'big portions of Azure cloud infrastructure': Code published

Now patched: 'A function that can be called with attacker-controlled data (which it shouldn't) and dereference twice a pointer (boom)'

Virtualization02 Jun 2021 | 11

AWS Free Tier, where's your spending limit? 'I thought I deleted everything but I have been charged $200'

Analysis Amazon's cloud arm criticised by users facing unexpected bills

PaaS + IaaS28 May 2021 | 86

Azure anywhere: Arc adds App Service, Function apps, Event Grid and more to on-premises Kubernetes

Build It will even keep working if Microsoft's cloud has an outage, honest

PaaS + IaaS25 May 2021 | 3

Azure services fall over in Europe, Microsoft works on fix

Updated One of these days we'll automate these outage articles with some kind of AI

PaaS + IaaS20 May 2021 | 29

Space Force's data must flow: Microsoft Azure and Ball Aerospace demo satellite to battlefield linkup

Warfare 365?

Off-Prem20 May 2021 | 13

Keeping track of one cloud provider's data products is a 'full-time job' so forget mixing and matching, says Gartner

Multi-cloud for data is too complicated

Off-Prem19 May 2021 | 7

Fleet would Mac? Microsoft's Azure VPN Client for Apple machines hits public preview

Azure Active Directory's tentacles wriggle into ever stranger places

Off-Prem17 May 2021 | 1

Microsoft's cloud gets JAMstacked: Azure Static Web Apps greenlit for production

JAM with a distinct whiff of Redmond, as you would expect

Software13 May 2021 | 3

Microsoft bins Azure Blockchain without explanation, gives users four months to move

Says picking a replacement is your next step. Seriously, that’s Redmond's first piece of advice. Eventually it recommends Quorum

PaaS + IaaS13 May 2021 | 24

Microsoft reveals what a growth mindset does to the letter ‘A’

Logowatch Azure icon gets the Fluid Design treatment

Off-Prem10 May 2021 | 22

BadAlloc: Microsoft looked at memory allocation code in tons of devices and found this one common security flaw

Updated Integer overflows leave IoT, OT, medical gear vulnerable to heap-seeking missiles

Security29 Apr 2021 | 52

Bumper third quarter for Microsoft as Azure revenue grows 50% year on year

Cloud migration and winner-takes-all integration drive more coins into Redmond's pocket

Off-Prem28 Apr 2021 |

Pssst! Wanna rent a cheap, off-the-books, third-gen Xeon Scalable? No SLA attached? We know a cloud that can help

A cloud called Azure, which appears to be previewing a Chipzilla special

PaaS + IaaS27 Apr 2021 | 3

Microsoft renews cloud contracts with UK.gov amid ongoing legal spat with on-prem licence reseller

Lawyers, say hello to the Digital Transformation Agreement 2021

SaaS21 Apr 2021 | 7

Not saying you should but we're told it's possible to land serverless app a '$40k/month bill using a 1,000-node botnet'

CompSci trio describe theoretical Denial-of-Wallet attack

Devops21 Apr 2021 | 21

'Unhealthy' Azure Portal instances in UK West take a little lie-down over lunchtime

A brief nap can do wonders when you're under the weather

PaaS + IaaS20 Apr 2021 | 10

Microsoft pledges Malaysian Azure region after winning government cloud gig

Complete with availability zones, coming real soon now after it turns local kids onto the cloud

Off-Prem20 Apr 2021 | 1

Azure adds programmatic pricing API to help you sniff out global deals

Seventeen currencies - not just the Greenback - are now just an API call away

Off-Prem15 Apr 2021 | 2

Software in space race heats up: Microsoft eyes satellite image processing with Thales Alenia Space's digital image analyst

DeeperVision software coming to Azure Marketplace

Science07 Apr 2021 | 4

'Our hosted pools are under attack by abusers': Azure DevOps enjoys a midweek TITSUP*

Crypto-mining jerks at least partly to blame

Devops07 Apr 2021 | 8