Azure lets developers search for prices in different currencies
Microsoft has released a change to its Retail Prices API. Users can now more easily search for all prices for Azure services, including those in foreign currencies.
According to Microsoft, many Azure customers were looking for ways to collect retail prices for all Azure services in different cur... Read more
Karbon by Nutanix is now integrated with Microsoft Arc
Nutanix's Karbon distribution of Kubernetes has now been integrated with the Microsoft Arc management framework. The number of Kubernetes distributions supporting Microsoft Arc will probably rise, now that it is generally available. Microsoft is positioning Arc as the control plane users can deploy... Read more
NetApp releases Spot services for Azure and Apache Spark
The release of Spot Wave, a data management service for Apache Spark, is NetApp’s way of adding Azure Kubernetes Services to the list of Kubernetes-orchestrated container app deployment services supported by Spot Ocean.
NetApp acquired Spot and its containerized app deployment tech in June 202... Read more
Microsoft gives a preliminary explanation for Azure trouble
Azure experienced an issue in the Azure Active Directory, which disrupted access to Office 365 apps and Azure Admin Portal for two hours or more for other users. Microsoft apologized for it on Monday, as part of a March 15 “preliminary root cause analysis’ notice, which was an explanation of wh... Read more
Pure Storage offers block storage on Azure
Pure Storage has announced that its Pure Cloud Block Store is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This makes maintaining a multi-cloud environment for block storage a lot easier.
The Pure Cloud Block Store runs on the same data plane as Pure Storage's own FlashArray systems. This m... Read more
Nokia to develop cloud-based 5G with AWS, Google, and Microsoft
Finnish telecom equipment manufacturer Nokia announced on Monday that it is partnering with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google, to develop new 5G radio solutions based in the cloud.
The goal of this partnership, according to three separate statements made by the company, is to develop ne... Read more
Azure as data powerhouse: more support, unified services
Microsoft has used its Ignite developer conference to highlight Azure as a platform to harness the power of data. Enterprises produce a lot of data, Microsoft sees, and with the right solutions, you can take advantage of this data. Cloud platform Azure will get updates to help businesses harness th... Read more
Microsoft adds new security features to Power BI
Microsoft has added a couple of new security features to its Power BI platform for business intelligence. The features provide options to better limit who can access what data.
Arun Ulag of Microsoft explains the new security options in Power BI in a blog post. These mainly revolve around networ... Read more
‘Biggest security risks are due to user error’
Users yet again turn out to be the weakest link in the security of computer systems. This is suggested by a survey by IT security company Zscaler among its customers.
The research is based on 'customers with thousands of workloads in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform'. Zscaler also looked at ... Read more
Microsoft announces Windows Admin Center Preview 2012
Update includes many new features for Microsoft's graphical tool for managing server clusters.
Today Microsoft announced an update to the tool in Preview, Windows Admin Center Preview 2012.
Windows Admin Center is a flexible, locally-deployed, browser-based management platform designed to hel... Read more