Veeam’s Backup for Microsoft Azure widely available
Veeam makes the new Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure publicly available. The service is easy to roll out via the Azure Marketplace.
This new backup and recovery solution helps customers and service providers move more applications and data to Azure. The new backup makes it possible to protect cl... Read more
Oracle acquires Zoom as cloud customer, defeats no one
Oracle announced today that it has acquired Zoom as a new major customer. The Oracle Cloud is now being used by Zoom as their infrastructure provider, which should ensure that people can have a smooth video conference 24 hours a day.
This article has been updated. Zoom contacted Techzine to info... Read more
Microsoft launches Azure Edge Zones for telecom operators
Microsoft has launched Azure Edge Zones. This enables Azure customers, especially in this case telecom operators, to more easily bring their applications to their various edge environments.
In concrete terms, the tech giant's aim is to enable its telecom customers to deliver real-time low-latenc... Read more
Commvault expands possibilities for various public clouds
Business backup specialist Commvault Systems has released a new release of its cloud-based data protection platform. In the latest edition a lot of functionality has been added for, among others, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, ServiceNow and Oracle.
Specifically, the now added cloud and on... Read more
Azure prioritises crucial sectors in case of capacity problems
Microsoft will prioritise healthcare and necessary government services (such as the fire department) when cloud service Azure encounters capacity problems. These professional groups are also seen as crucial during the coronavrius outbreak.
In a blog post, Microsoft discusses problems it may enco... Read more
Microsoft adds healthcare functions to Office 365
Microsoft has announced a number of additions to Office 365. These are new Microsoft Teams functions for the healthcare sector, designed to facilitate virtual healthcare. Also, some patient management functions have been added to Azure.
Teams will have a new app called Bookings, which healthcare... Read more
Azure Sphere for IoT generally available
General availability has been announced for the Microsoft Azure Sphere security service, aimed at protecting IoT (Internet of Things) devices. Until now, the service was only available in a preview.
The company introduced Azure Sphere, which is based on a Microsoft-built Linux operating system, ... Read more
Pegasystems announces Kubernetes support
Pegasystems has announced support for Kubernetes. This solution enables container orchestration for Pega users on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Pivotal and Red Hat.
According to the company itself, the expansion is the result of the importance that Pega attaches to its Pega Cloud Choice Gu... Read more
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Online now available for preview
Microsoft has launched Visual Studio Online for public preview at the Ignite 2019 conference.
Visual Studio Online provides managed, on-demand development environments that can be used for long-term projects, to prototype a new feature for instance, or for short-term tasks such as reviewing pull... Read more
Microsoft Azure Sphere publicly available next year
Azure Sphere, a Linux-based microcontroller (MCU) and associated cybersecurity service, will become generally available in February 2020. Microsoft announced this during the IoT Solutions World Congress.
Azure Sphere was earlier called Project Sopris. With this project, Microsoft wanted to devel... Read more