Microsoft expands Azure with support service for cloud migrations
Microsoft unveiled a series of new solutions for cloud migrations, database management and analytics.
Microsoft shared the news during Ignite. The conference takes place from October 12 through October 14. Techzine is reporting on the various product announcements made. Stay up to date with the ... Read more
SAS Viya is now available in Microsoft Azure Marketplace
SAS announced that analytics platform Viya is now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The move should make it easier to deploy solutions for data exploration, machine learning and model implementation.
The availability of Viya in the Azure Marketplace got a lot of attention during SAS ... Read more
UK telco regulator announces probe into the cloud services market
Ofcom, the UK's national telecom regulator, announced a probe into the competition in the cloud services market, a segment dominated by hyperscalers like AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Ofcom announced that it would investigate additional digital marketplaces within the next year, coverin... Read more
Microsoft launches policy-as-code tool for Azure
Microsoft introduced a policy-as-code tool to streamline policy implementations in its Azure cloud environment.
Organizations are increasingly using cloud environments for day-to-day operations. In order to keep things streamlined, certain policies and rules need to be integrated within their en... Read more
‘Demand for cloud infrastructure services grows by 33 percent’
Organizations paid over €60 billion for cloud infrastructure services in the past quarter, up 33 percent from the same period last year.
Market researcher Canalys publishes a report on the cloud infrastructure market once every three months. In the second quarter of 2022, organizations spent ... Read more
Accenture acquires Dutch cloud MSP Sentia
Accenture has just announced the acquisition of Sentia. The Netherlands, Belgium and Bulgaria offices will all become part of Accenture. Accenture states that it made the acquisition to bolster its cloud infrastructure capabilities.
With Sentia, Accenture gains a certified cloud MSP with extensi... Read more
Microsoft solves Azure’s capacity problem by using servers longer
Microsoft will replace its data center hardware less quickly. The policy was to replace all network and server hardware after four years, but that period has been extended to six years. This will save Microsoft $1.1 billion per quarter (over €1 billion).
During the presentation of its quarterl... Read more
Microsoft launches virtual machines with AMD’s encryption tech
Microsoft added virtual machines with AMD's third-gen Epyc CPU encryption and security features to its Azure confidential computing portfolio.
Third-gen Epyc CPUs use Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology to protect a VM's memory from a hypervisor through encryption. Microsoft now emp... Read more
Oracle extends Interconnect for Azure with Database Service for Azure
The new service makes it possible to run Oracle databases without leaving the Azure environment.
Recently, Oracle has been busy connecting as many third-party environments as possible. Earlier this year, we reported on the Oracle Database API for MongoDB. Thereby, document-oriented databases fro... Read more
‘AWS, Azure and Google Cloud tighten grip on public cloud market’
A report by Synergy Research Group shows that most companies used AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud for their cloud services in the first quarter of this year.
The research indicates that the big three were responsible for roughly 65 percent of all public cloud service revenue worldwide. Com... Read more