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The Mastodon plugin is now available on the Steampipe Hub
When Twitter changed hands last November I switched to Mastodon; ever since I’ve enjoyed happier and more productive...
Generally available: Large disk support for disaster recovery of Hyper-V VMs using Site Recovery
You can now enable disaster recovery for Hyper-VMs with data disks up to 32 TB in size.
Public Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup
Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup.
The changing world of Java
Vaadin recently released new research on the state of Java in the enterprise. Combined with other sources, this survey...
General availability: IP Protection SKU for Azure DDoS Protection
IP Protection provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade DDoS protection designed to meet the needs of SMB.
Public preview: Private Application Gateway v2
Application Gateway v2 is introducing support for private IP only frontend configurations, enhanced control over NSG...
3 common myths about sustainability and cloud computing
Sustainability is a genuine objective for many enterprises, driven by their desire to be good stewards of the planet....
Heroku’s Adam Wiggens on making computers better
Adam Wiggins co-founded Heroku, the pioneering PaaS company, and is the founder of Muse App. He's also had a hand in...
Public preview update: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.2 and Python 3.10 runbooks
Azure Automation has expanded Public preview support for PowerShell 7.2 and Python 3.10 runbooks.
General Availability: New General-Purpose VMs – Dlsv5 and Dldsv5
The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose...
5 priorities that cut cloud costs and improve IT ops
During the past decade, companies have been building significant computing workloads on public and private cloud...
Action recommended: Implement disaster recovery strategies for your Azure App Service web apps by 31 March 2025
We'll no longer place apps in disaster recovery mode in the event of a regional disaster.
The “managed” IoT Edge solution on Azure stack Edge will be retired on March 31, 2024. Transition your IoT Edge workloads to an IoT Edge solution running on a Linux VM on Azure Stack Edge.
The “managed” IoT Edge solution on Azure Stack Edge will be retired on 31 March 2024
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server will be retired—migrate to Flexible Server by 28 March 2025
On 28 March 2025, Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server will be retired, and you'll need to migrate to Azure...
Action Required: Transition to DCR-based KQL transformations by 31 March 2026
Custom fields feature will be retired on 31 March 2026
Azure CDN will be retiring Azure CDN Standard from Akamai on 31 October 2023 – transition to another CDN profile to avoid service interruption
Azure CDN Standard from Akamai is being retired and services will end on 31 October 2023
The ‘AI tax’ on AI-enabled applications in the cloud
Back in 2019, I wrote about the “container tax.” In simple terms, this is the additional cost to use containers...
MariaDB SkySQL adds serverless analytics, cost management features
MariaDB is adding features such as serverless analytics and cost management to the new release of its managed...
Azure Image Builder Portal Functionality now available
Using Azure Image Builder’s new portal functionality, you can now build and validate custom images inside the portal....
Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Second Refresh Release
This release includes quality improvements.