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

Wolves no longer at the door of struggling Brit cloud slinger

21 Jan 2022 12:43 | 7

PaaS + IaaS

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

11 Jan 2022 16:15 | 16

Analysis

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

But is the telco backing itself into a corner?

05 Jan 2022 23:28 | 3

Security

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

24 Dec 2021 06:01 | 7

AI + ML

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

You have until 10 January to make your feelings felt

13 Dec 2021 13:29 | 3

PaaS + IaaS

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

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

09 Dec 2021 04:54 |

Security

Microsoft extends Secured-core concept to servers

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

08 Dec 2021 05:15 | 6

PaaS + IaaS

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

24 Nov 2021 19:08 | 13

OSes

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

23 Nov 2021 11:01 | 15

PaaS + IaaS

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

What could possibly go wrong?

22 Nov 2021 19:01 | 5

Databases

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

Vertical differentiation helps users see the wood from the trees

17 Nov 2021 14:45 | 2

Black Hat Europe

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

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

12 Nov 2021 19:19 | 11

Ignite

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

We drill into what's available in this public preview

04 Nov 2021 00:36 |

Ignite

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

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

03 Nov 2021 00:49 | 2

Ignite

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

The direction of travel is clear – cloudwards

02 Nov 2021 18:06 | 2

PaaS + IaaS

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

US Government Audit Office upholds Redmond's protest

01 Nov 2021 16:17 | 12

Virtualization

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

13 Oct 2021 12:05 | 7

Legal

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

Governance and compliance are the watchwords here

28 Sep 2021 17:45 | 4

Security

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

17 Sep 2021 04:58 | 32

Security

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

09 Sep 2021 02:56 | 3

Off-Prem

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

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

03 Sep 2021 09:25 | 19

Analysis

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

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

31 Aug 2021 04:30 | 20

Security

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

27 Aug 2021 01:16 | 13

Applications

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

26 Aug 2021 13:28 |

Software

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

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

20 Aug 2021 17:05 | 13

Edge + IoT

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

Supercomputing above the clouds

19 Aug 2021 11:45 | 10

Interview

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

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

11 Aug 2021 09:11 | 10

Off-Prem

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

AWS and Azure cruise into government agency

09 Aug 2021 10:29 | 7

Devops

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

03 Aug 2021 18:57 | 24

PaaS + IaaS

'$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

30 Jul 2021 17:16 | 18

Servers

Microsoft abandons semi-annual releases for Windows Server

Special capabilities on Azure leaving on-premises users behind

28 Jul 2021 21:15 | 24

PaaS + IaaS

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

16 Jul 2021 05:15 | 8

SaaS

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

14 Jul 2021 15:00 | 83

Security

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

30 Jun 2021 22:02 |

Servers

Windows Server 2022: Azure Edition slips into Public Preview

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

25 Jun 2021 18:30 | 5

Virtualization

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)'

02 Jun 2021 12:14 | 11

Analysis

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

Amazon's cloud arm criticised by users facing unexpected bills

28 May 2021 10:46 | 86

Build

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

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

25 May 2021 20:55 | 3

Updated

Azure services fall over in Europe, Microsoft works on fix

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

20 May 2021 16:57 | 29

Off-Prem

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

Warfare 365?

20 May 2021 12:15 | 13

Off-Prem

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

19 May 2021 11:34 | 7

Off-Prem

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

Azure Active Directory's tentacles wriggle into ever stranger places

17 May 2021 17:17 | 1

Software

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

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

13 May 2021 18:24 | 3

PaaS + IaaS

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

13 May 2021 04:59 | 24

Logowatch

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

Azure icon gets the Fluid Design treatment

10 May 2021 07:02 | 21

Updated

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

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

29 Apr 2021 22:03 | 52

Off-Prem

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

28 Apr 2021 12:15 |

PaaS + IaaS

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

27 Apr 2021 08:02 | 3

SaaS

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

21 Apr 2021 10:30 | 7

Devops

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

21 Apr 2021 06:23 | 21

PaaS + IaaS

'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

20 Apr 2021 14:25 | 10

Off-Prem

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

20 Apr 2021 01:24 | 1

Off-Prem

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

15 Apr 2021 07:05 | 2

Science

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

07 Apr 2021 18:11 | 4

Devops

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

Crypto-mining jerks at least partly to blame

07 Apr 2021 16:33 | 8

Updated

If you can't log into Azure, Teams or Xbox Live right now: Microsoft cloud services in worldwide outage

It's not DNS. There's no way it can be DNS... It was DNS

01 Apr 2021 22:58 | 37

Devops

Microsoft welcomes 'raddest' and most 'feature-dense' Kubernetes release to AKS, shows 1.17 the door

Mere months to go before 1.21 arrives

01 Apr 2021 15:18 | 12

Updated

Microsoft customers locked out of Teams, Office, Xbox, Dynamics – and Azure Active Directory breakdown blamed

Redmond says gremlin identified tho rollback is taking longer than expected

15 Mar 2021 21:19 | 77

AI + ML

Microsoft rolls out mask detection to Azure Cognitive Services. And yes, there is a noseAndMouthCovered attribute

For those who find wearing the things so damn difficult

09 Mar 2021 18:00 | 6

Security

Azure flings out free virtual trusted platform module for cloudy VMs

Take that, rootkits and other low-level nasties - if they take a crack at fresh VMs, on certain instance types under a handful of OSes

09 Mar 2021 05:58 | 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

Microsoft extends Secured-core concept to servers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Microsoft abandons semi-annual releases for Windows Server

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

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

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

Windows Server 2022: Azure Edition slips into Public Preview

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

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

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

Azure services fall over in Europe, Microsoft works on fix

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

Microsoft pledges Malaysian Azure region after winning government cloud gig

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

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

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

If you can't log into Azure, Teams or Xbox Live right now: Microsoft cloud services in worldwide outage

Microsoft welcomes 'raddest' and most 'feature-dense' Kubernetes release to AKS, shows 1.17 the door

Microsoft customers locked out of Teams, Office, Xbox, Dynamics – and Azure Active Directory breakdown blamed

Microsoft rolls out mask detection to Azure Cognitive Services. And yes, there is a noseAndMouthCovered attribute

Azure flings out free virtual trusted platform module for cloudy VMs

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