Earn up to $20,000 with discovery bugs in Azure DevOps
Microsoft launches a bounty program for the Azure DevOps cloud service. Anyone who finds a leak or bug can get up to $20,000 as a reward.
Microsoft has launched a new bounty program specifically for the Azure DevOps cloud service. For example, security researchers are given an incentive to look for ... Read more
Microsoft wins controversial Pentagon contract
Last Friday, Microsoft signed a five-year contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. According to the Pentagon, the contract, in which the company will provide business services for the ministry, will cost $1.76 billion.
The Pentagon reports this in a message to the Reuters news agency, among oth... Read more
Microsoft makes Trill engine open-source for high-speed analytics
Microsoft has today created Trill open-source. That's a data processing engine that can analyze billions of events per second. The project is the latest in a growing list of internal technologies that the company shares with the world. Many of these techniques are aimed at artificial intelligence.
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Microsoft stops supporting Azure Container Service at the beginning of 2020
As of 31 January 2020, Microsoft will stop supporting its Azure Container Service (ACS). That's what representatives of the company are reporting today. The intention is to completely replace the Container Service with the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which was introduced in the course of 2017.
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Microsoft adds new AI capabilities to Azure Cloud
Microsoft unveiled a lot of new AI capabilities at the Connect();-developer conference this week. Also within the public cloud Azure, developers will soon be able to rely more on artificial intelligence. The building and training of machine learning models will soon be available for developers and d... Read more
NetApp expands with new services for Azure, Google Cloud and Salesforce
NetApp expands its cloud offering with three new services for Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Salesforce. The aim is to provide a consistent IT environment in which workloads and applications can be shifted between them.
NetApp wants to create a single, consistent IT environment with the new offer... Read more
Samsung builds large Korean data center to compete with AWS and Azure
Samsung, a South Korean company, has decided to build a data centre close to the North and South Korean borders. It does that on an old shooting range called Chuncheon. Some call it a risky strategy, but Samsung will save a lot on keeping its servers cool.
The data centre is located approximately on... Read more
HPE Cloud Volumes gets European data center and container support
Today, HPE Cloud Volumes is expanding into Europe with data centres in the UK and Ireland. The service provides support for container platforms including Docker and Kubernetes, and is now also certified for critical healthcare applications.
HPE Cloud Volumes is a strange thing about HPE. HPE is not ... Read more
Microsoft Azure data centers in South Africa within weeks live
Microsoft announced over a year ago that it would build two new data centers in South Africa. These were locations in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Lionel Moyal, the Director of Commercial Partners at the company in South Africa, has now announced that the data centers should go live within a few week... Read more
“AWS is still the undisputed market leader when it comes to public cloud.
AWS continues to lead the market when it comes to public cloud platforms, according to Synergy Research researchers in their latest quarterly survey of the power distributions in this market. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service are the most popular services for this.
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