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
‘Microsoft working on ARM based processors for Azure and Surface’
Like Apple and Amazon, Microsoft appears to be working on the development of its own processors based on the ARM architecture. The chips are mainly intended for servers, but the company is also looking at possibilities for the Surface line.
The rumours originate from Bloomberg sources. In respon... Read more
Microsoft announces plans to build an Azure data center in Denmark
Microsoft is continuing its expansion of global Azure data centers at a rapid rate. The company revealed that it plans to launch a new region in Denmark after announcing new regions in Taiwan and Austria two months ago.
In line with many recent announcements from the software giant, there is als... Read more
Alibaba now in 4th place ahead of IBM in cloud infrastructure
Alibaba made its foray into the cloud infrastructure market in 2015, with ambitions to become one of the biggest. Now, the company announced that it had quarterly revenue of $2.194 billion. That number shows it has surpassed IBM, which had about $1.65 billion in revenue.
$2 billion is a large fi... Read more
Azure receives Java Resource Management libraries
Microsoft has announced that Azure Cloud has a couple of new libraries to support programs written in Java. Different functions in the platform can now be called with Java.
The tech company has announced the update in a blog post. In it, Weidong Xu, senior software engineer at Microsoft, explain... Read more
Apache Spark gains .NET support
Microsoft and the .NET Foundation released version 1.0 of .NET for Apache Spark. The package enables developers to use Spark in .NET programming languages such as C# and F#.
To develop the package, a team of people from Azure Data Engineering, the Mobius project and .NET was put together.
Big... Read more
Microsoft releases Cloud for Healthcare
Microsoft has released its first vertical cloud solution. With Cloud for Healthcare, the company offers a full range of solutions tailored to the health industry.
The solution combines elements of Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to meet the needs of health industry workers.... Read more
Microsoft partners with Honeywell for industrial IoT analytics market
Microsoft and Honeywell are partnering to integrate Honeywell Forge industrial analytics platform with Azure and Dynamic 365 Field Service. The partnership is aimed at helping enterprises optimize how they manage physical assets like machinery.
Honeywell is a prominent manufacturer of industrial... Read more
Microsoft announces Azure Space and partnership with SpaceX
Move targets public and private industry customers as well as governments.
Microsoft announced this week that it’s making its Azure cloud-computing services available to the space industry. The new platform, called Azure Space, will provide space-based Azure services to customers in the agricu... Read more
Azure Sentinel Security gets upgrade in analytics to detect odd behaviour
Microsoft Azure Sentinel security system has new features that allow behavioural analytics to detect insider and new threats faster. This new feature is also an incentive for users to send their security logs to Azure cloud for analysis.
The model used here is the pay-as-you-go pricing plan. Use... Read more