Microsoft Azure Sphere publicly available next year
Azure Sphere, a Linux-based microcontroller (MCU) and associated cybersecurity service, will become generally available in February 2020. Microsoft announced this during the IoT Solutions World Congress.
Azure Sphere was earlier called Project Sopris. With this project, Microsoft wanted to devel... Read more
Microsoft focuses on IoT and edge with new operating systems
Microsoft has a vision, namely that of the Intelligent Cloud and the Intelligent Edge. To realize this vision, the company has launched a series of new operating systems and products to support use cases within the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing.
Microsoft now offers a version of i... Read more
Nvidia partners with Ericsson, Red Hat and Microsoft for 5G networks
Nvidia, mainly known for their GPU-solutions, has announced partnerships with Ericsson, Red Hat and Microsoft. These partnerships should enable Nvidia to venture into 5G and help create high-performance Radio Access Networks.
Ericsson
The partnership with Ericsson concerns a collaboration on ... Read more
Microsoft and Pivotal launch Azure Spring Cloud
Microsoft and Pivotal Software have made a new service called Azure Spring Cloud available as a private preview. This fully managed and production-ready Azure cloud service can be used to build scalable microservices without having to think about the supporting IT infrastructure.
The service is... Read more
Microsoft introduces portable rugged Azure Data Box Edge
Microsoft has expanded its Azure Data Box family with a
new rugged version of the device that fits in a backpack. This concerns the
rugged Azure Data Box Edge, which can be used to move data to and from Azure.
The Azure Data Box family was made available in Europe in
2018. Earlier this month, M... Read more
Microsoft announces general availability for Windows Virtual Desktop
Microsoft has announced that Windows Virtual Desktop is
now generally available worldwide. Windows Virtual Desktop offers Windows 10
virtualization and multi-session Windows 10 capabilities. There is also support
for Windows Server RDS desktop and apps. The service is now available for
Windows, And... Read more
Major tech companies collaborate in CyberPeace Institute
A number of major tech companies have decided to collaborate and set up a non-governmental organization (NGO) that aims to stop the growth of global cybercrime. The group is called the CyberPeace Institute, and was founded by Microsoft and Mastercard, among others.
The CyberPeace Institute was s... Read more
For Dell Technologies, VMware is at the heart of every solution
At Dell Technologies World, Michael Dell was responsible
for the most important presentations and introductions. Dell Technologies
presented the company's vision and told us what the future looks like. It
positions itself from the edge, to the core, to the cloud. What stood out was
the role of VMwa... Read more
Microsoft open-sources C++ STL on GitHub
Microsoft has made its implementation of the Standard Library of C++ open-source on GitHub. The implementation becomes available under an Apache 2.0 license, with exceptions for LLVM.
Stephan Lavavej from Microsoft gave a number of reasons for the move to a company blog post. One of the reasons ... Read more
‘Microsoft wants to make Azure Stack container-based’
Microsoft is most likely in the process of redesigning Azure Stack, the company's hybrid cloud service. The redesign should change the infrastructure on which Azure Stack runs into a container-based infrastructure.
The project to reorganize the underlying infrastructure for Azure Stack is codena... Read more