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How finops affects cloud usage and repatriation
A 2022 study carried out by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group found that 62% of firms use third-party cloud-cost...
Generally available: Azure Bastion now support shareable links
Shareable links allows users to connect to target resources via Azure Bastion without access to the Azure portal.
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.05 expected on May 24
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for...
Public Preview: App Service Minimum TLS Cipher Suite Now on Azure Portal
Disable Weak TLS Cipher Suites for Your App Service Web Apps (Preview)
Google unveils PaLM 2 AI language model
Google has introduced PaLM (Pathways Language Model) 2, an update to its next-generation large language model with...
Google’s Vertex AI machine learning platform gets generative AI tools
At Google's annual I/O conference, the internet giant on Wednesday said that it was adding tools for building...
Google’s Duet AI to take on Amazon CodeWhisperer, GitHub Copilot
Google at its annual I/O conference on Wednesday said that it would be introducing a new generative AI engine, akin to...
Solving the SBOM crisis with WebAssembly components
Recent reports have thrown the spotlight back on the thorny issue of inherited software vulnerabilities. Many don’t...
Component-based development has been a long time coming
It was 1991, and I was sitting at yet another software development conference listening to a presentation on a new...
General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer
Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer.
Public preview: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager
We are excited to announce that the AlwaysServe feature for Azure Traffic Manager is now available in Public Preview....
Preview: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps
App Service has an automatic scaling capability that adjusts the number of running instances of your application based...
Kubernetes cost management for the real world
Microsoft’s decision to make Kubernetes a foundational service in Azure is paying off, not only for Microsoft but also...
Somehow OpenSearch has succeeded
OpenSearch shouldn’t exist. The open source alternative to Elasticsearch started off as Amazon Web Services’ (AWS)...
Retirement of SQL Server Native Client (SNAC) OLE DB provider for linked servers in Azure SQL Managed Instance
All existing linked server objects configured to use SQLNCLI will automatically switch to using the fully...
Configure finops processes with the right metrics
The rise of finops programs and tools is scaring me a little. I believe that many enterprises are misapplying them,...
General availability: Azure IoT Edge supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
The latest Azure IoT Edge releases provide official packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 on AMD64 devices.
Public preview: Azure Cold Storage
Azure Cold Storage, as the most cost-effective access tier with near real-time read latency for infrequently accessed...
Public Preview: Palo Alto Networks SaaS Cloud NGFW Integration with Virtual WAN
The first security software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to be integrated in Azure Virtual WAN, allowing you to...
Generally Available: Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 NVMe-enabled VM sizes
The new NVMe-enabled VM sizes of the Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 VM offer the highest remote storage IOPS and throughput...