‘We’ve mitigated the largest DDoS attack reported in history’
Microsoft announces that Azure DDoS Protection defended against a DDoS attack of 3.47 Tbps in November 2021. "The largest attack reported in history", Microsoft says.
DDoS attackers use the connectivity of hacked devices to fire a large number of data packets at a target. If a target cannot pro... Read more
Microsoft recruits top Apple chip architect to work on Azure servers
Microsoft sets its sights on developing proprietary processors for Azure servers. For this purpose, the tech giant is recruiting Mike Filippo, a prominent Apple chip architect.
Bloomberg reports that Microsoft recently hired Mike Filippo from Apple. Filippo is an experienced semiconductor design... Read more
Google expands its infrastructure into Asia-Pacific and Europe
Google Cloud Platform is a public cloud vendor that lets you rent computer resources from Google's data centers across the world. You can access these for free or on an hourly basis with other competitors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure!
Google Cloud Platform is helping bus... Read more
Microsoft introduces stress test service Azure Load Testing
Microsoft recently released the preview of its Azure Load Testing service. This managed service allows developers and testers to stress test their applications to improve performance and scalability.
With load testing software, developers can expose their applications, websites, database or netw... Read more
Microsoft introduces Azure App Service Automatic Scaling
The new service will help developers increase efficiency while maintaining a lid on their Azure operating costs
Microsoft are introducing a new platform-managed automatic scaling feature in Azure App Services. Customers can enable the service through either the Azure CLI or ARM templates. The a... Read more
Fortinet integrates firewalls and Secure SD-WAN with Microsoft Azure
Fortinet has integrated its next-generation firewall and Secure SD-WAN solutions with Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN.
The integration should give enterprises more options for applying advanced security rules to virtual WAN traffic. The integration also makes Secure SD-WAN available in the Azure Vir... Read more
‘Microsoft reorganizes cloud and AI business’
Based on internal Microsoft emails, ZDNet reports that Microsoft is reorganizing within its cloud and AI business, moving emerging technology markets into new separate departments and teams.
According to the tech site, certain emerging markets within the cloud business are being merged into new ... Read more
Microsoft releases YARP 1.0
The release is a highly customisable reverse proxy built around .NET
This week Microsoft announced the release of YARP 1.0. The company is hailing the release as a "highly customisable" reverse proxy built using the .NET framework. A key feature is that YARP is supplied as a library and includes... Read more
SentinelOne launches zero trust integration in Microsoft Azure AD
SentinelOne is launching a ready-to-use integration in Azure Active Directory (AD). The so-called Singularity App for Azure AD allows administrators to have user policies in Azure AD automatically changed when SentinelOne detects an endpoint threat.
To understand how the introduction works, an u... Read more
Pure Storage Partners with Microsoft Azure
The deal puts Pure Storage in Equinix data centres to assure fast Azure connectivity
Pure Storage this week announced it has partnered with Microsoft Azure to significantly speed up next-gen chip design. They say they will deliver a data layer that can keep up with the HPC workloads running in t... Read more