Azure

Microsoft drops the C bomb on financial services – 'compliance'

Windows giant know exactly how to get these types fired up

Off-Prem05 Oct 2022 | 3

AWS, Microsoft, Google own 72% of Euro customer cloud spending

Democratizing IT? The next biggest 3 in region are also US headquartered giants

Off-Prem29 Sep 2022 | 5

Microsoft to kill off old access rules in Exchange Online

Awoooogah – this is your one-year warning to switch over, enterprises

CSO28 Sep 2022 | 13

SAS puts ML and analytics suite on Azure Marketplace

50-year-old software project provides a button the boss can click

Databases27 Sep 2022 |

In Rust We Trust: Microsoft Azure CTO shuns C and C++

Updated Mark Russinovich goes hardcore against old languages

Software20 Sep 2022 | 143

Remember when Microsoft was going to put Azure in space? It's still trying

'Cloud connectivity' hits different this time

Networks14 Sep 2022 | 4

Microsoft scales up Azure's Policy-as-code in 'new approach'

The code's on GitHub for admins to play with

Off-Prem12 Sep 2022 |

Security pros get ability to manually add incidents to Microsoft Sentinel

*Tappity tappity* Yes the NSA's on the phone. Well maybe the automated log check didn't pick it up yet, Chad!

Security12 Sep 2022 |

Official: Arm-based VMs available on Microsoft Azure

Going live in 10 regions, running Ampere Altra silicon

PaaS + IaaS30 Aug 2022 | 4

Hiding a phishing attack behind the AWS cloud

Scammers are using cloud services to create and host web pages that can be used to lure victims into handing over their credentials

Security22 Aug 2022 | 7

Quantum computing startup IonQ lands on Microsoft's Azure

Yep, that’s the same company a short-seller is alleging is a ‘useless toy’

PaaS + IaaS18 Aug 2022 | 3

Microsoft Azure cloud region settles over desert in Doha, Qatar

Opening was delayed during that pandemic thing

Systems16 Aug 2022 | 13

Economic uncertainty can't stop cloud growth

You may have had your fill of chips – but AWS, GCP, and Azure are still hungry, analyst tells El Reg

Off-Prem11 Aug 2022 | 3

Google Cloud expands to Thailand, Malaysia and New Zealand

Hopes to tap expected growth as it levels up to match rivals' presences

Off-Prem10 Aug 2022 |

Microsoft widens enterprise access to its threat intelligence pool

Organizations can be more proactive in tracking threats, finding holes in their protection

Security03 Aug 2022 |

Microsoft extends life of cloud servers from four to six years

Banks billions by making gear last even longer than AWS or Google

Off-Prem02 Aug 2022 | 24

Canonical adds instance tweaking to Multipass, Confidential VMs to Azure

The days of destroying and rebuilding to add another CPU core are numbered

Virtualization01 Aug 2022 |

Microsoft closes unfilled job openings in cloud and security

Despite growth and strong demand in these areas, Redmond keeps trimming investment

PaaS + IaaS21 Jul 2022 | 2

Microsoft previews next Azure Stack HCI release

Also: Marketplace and Remote Support, for when you'd like an engineer to peer at your infrastructure

PaaS + IaaS21 Jul 2022 |

Oracle, Microsoft agree to shared custody of your workloads in the cloud

Larry gets your database, while Satya will take your apps

PaaS + IaaS20 Jul 2022 | 15

Microsoft harnesses third-gen AMD Epyc processors for locked-down VMs

Blockchain-based Azure Confidential Ledger rounds out latest additions to confidential computing

PaaS + IaaS20 Jul 2022 | 2

Microsoft floats Cloud for Sovereignty

More transparency or just the cost of doing business? For customers whose data must remain

PaaS + IaaS20 Jul 2022 | 4

Microsoft unveils a public preview of Update Management Center

It's an Azure Arc world: Perform patching across your IT estate

Off-Prem19 Jul 2022 | 1

Microsoft joins Jakarta EE, MicroProfile Working Groups at Eclipse Foundation

A portent of the End Times, or simply a smart corporate move? Probably the latter

Software15 Jul 2022 | 1

Farewell to Windows Server 20H2 and the Semi-Annual Channel

Can't do without new toys to play with on servers? There's always Azure Stack HCI

OSes13 Jul 2022 |

Microsoft cloud exec accused of verbal attack on staff exits

Tom Keane helped Redmond win JEDI deal, respond to GDPR, and ran Azure datacenter infrastructure worldwide

PaaS + IaaS07 Jul 2022 | 28

FedEx signals 'zero mainframe, zero datacenter' operations by 2024

Going completely cloud-native will save it $400m a year, CIO estimates

On-Prem05 Jul 2022 | 35

Supply chain blamed amid claims of Azure capacity issues

Microsoft says it'll move to 'restrict trials and internal workloads to prioritize growth of existing customers'

PaaS + IaaS04 Jul 2022 | 37

FabricScape: Microsoft warns of vuln in Service Fabric

Not trying to spin this as a Linux security hole, surely?

Devops29 Jun 2022 | 12

Microsoft updates Azure Form Recognizer: Invoices go multi-language

Power Apps Express Design doesn't get to have all the AI fun

Applications07 Jun 2022 | 1

Scribble to app: Microsoft's Power Apps VP talks us through 'Express design'

Interview Recognizing your doodles and building some software – or that's the idea

Applications01 Jun 2022 | 10

Azure Active Directory logs are lagging, alerts may be wrong or missing

Updated We have questions: Who's logged in lately? How would you know? Ain't it grand that Microsoft wants you in Azure AD?

Off-Prem01 Jun 2022 | 25

Microsoft Azure to spin up AMD MI200 GPU clusters for 'large scale' AI training

Microsoft Build Windows giant carries a PyTorch for chip designer and its rival Nvidia

AI + ML26 May 2022 |

Despite 'key' partnership with AWS, Meta taps up Microsoft Azure for AI work

Someone got Zuck'd

PaaS + IaaS25 May 2022 | 4

Microsoft-backed robovans to deliver grub in London

British startup Wayve gets supercomputing leg up

AI + ML19 May 2022 | 26

Alibaba Cloud adds third datacenter in Germany

More Euro-presence than any other Chinese company, but still nowhere near Google or AWS

PaaS + IaaS17 May 2022 | 1

Arm, Microsoft at pains to say this CPU arch can be trusted with real server work

It should just run like x86, pair basically stress

Virtualization17 May 2022 | 11

OVH: The cloud should be open, reversible, interoperable

Interview CEO Michel Paulin on coming back from a datacenter blaze and playing nicely with others

PaaS + IaaS10 May 2022 | 11

Was Nokia's Microsoft switch deal win a reward for SONiC contributions?

Supply-chain constraints and code for network OS played a role, analyst tells El Reg

Networks06 May 2022 | 5

Microsoft to nudge more users toward Azure Active Directory

Love your Windows Update Compliance reports? Best learn to love Azure AD as well

Off-Prem05 May 2022 | 2

Microsoft to ax Azure Video Analyzer in November

Deprecation less than a year after announcement, users have until December 1 to move workloads

AI + ML03 May 2022 | 6

Cloud a three-player market dominated by AWS, Google, Microsoft

Big three’s market share now at 65 percent almost everywhere outside China

PaaS + IaaS02 May 2022 | 4

Q1 cloud growth lifts AWS, Azure, and Google

34% jump shows smaller businesses are catching on and driving investment, says Canalys

PaaS + IaaS29 Apr 2022 | 2

Microsoft fixes cross-account vulns in Azure Database for PostgreSQL service

Presented by the Wiz team that found the Cosmos DB flaw

Databases28 Apr 2022 | 2

$10b National Security Agency contract re-awarded to AWS

Microsoft won, Amazon complained. Amazon won, Microsoft complained. Amazon won... again

PaaS + IaaS28 Apr 2022 | 10

CAST AI puts out report on extent of enterprises cloud resource overspend

Tool relies on platform getting everything right in real time, cautions analyst

PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2022 | 3

Kraft Heinz signs up Microsoft to lift it into the cloud

Azure trusted with food giant's sauce code

PaaS + IaaS21 Apr 2022 | 7

Microsoft inks satellite deal to push edge computing, software in orbit

Pop quiz: you've got your own edge computer in space. What do you do with it?

Edge + IoT06 Apr 2022 | 1

Microsoft, HPE put AI to work checking astronaut gloves

Video I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid you can't go out dressed like that

AI + ML05 Apr 2022 | 1

European antitrust watchdogs sniff around Microsoft cloud licensing deals

Reportedly has already sent a Q&A to Microsoft cloud rivals, customers

PaaS + IaaS04 Apr 2022 | 2

Microsoft reveals revamped Azure CDN – in two editions

Users of Redmond's two older cloudy CDNs told that the only route to future upgrades is migration

Off-Prem30 Mar 2022 | 2

Microsoft targets multicloud with Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI

Aims for consistent management across public and private clouds

PaaS + IaaS29 Mar 2022 | 1

Microsoft's New Commerce Experience: Cloud resellers concerned

Who benefits from changes to the Partner Network? Well, it's not partners... or even their customers

PaaS + IaaS17 Mar 2022 | 11

Microsoft introduces pay-as-you-go tier for Power Apps

The plan? Pay for low code and Azure services subscription in one shot. The price? Double pre-paid plans

SaaS10 Mar 2022 | 5

Azure pulls in front of AWS in public cloud adoption

It's close as Microsoft finds favor with surveyed enterprise IT pros

Off-Prem09 Mar 2022 | 13

£5bn up for grabs in UK govt G-Cloud 13 framework

Latest iteration of procurement in model dating back to 2011, how has that cloud first policy gone?

Off-Prem09 Mar 2022 | 3