New platform adds self-managing storage to Azure and AWS
It's important for enterprises to correctly size their public clouds in order to control costs and optimize performance.
Cloud management company Turbonomic is using this week's Microsoft Ignite conference to announce a new version of its platform that delivers dynamic optimization and allocation of storage and relational database services.
Microsoft mixes AI and cloud to drive business transformation
Microsoft is using its annual Ignite event this week to show how technology can be used to help customers innovate and transform their business processes.
Announcements have covered Office 365, Windows 10, Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft AI as well as a look at how quantum computing may help solve some major challenges.
Canonical builds a custom Ubuntu kernel for Microsoft Azure
Microsoft's relationship with Ubuntu-maker Canonical has been getting increasingly cosy over the past couple of years, and the two companies are now working even more closely with each other. The latest fruit of this partnership is a custom Azure-tailored Ubuntu kernel.
The updated kernel introduces new features including NAPI and Receive Segment Coalescing, Hyper-V socket capability, and support for Accelerated Networking in Azure. Any Ubuntu 16.04 LTS image brought up from the Azure portal after September 2 will be running on this Azure tailored Ubuntu kernel.
Microsoft adds Confidential Compute to Azure cloud platform
Microsoft has revealed a major new addition to its Azure cloud platform, aimed at keeping user data safe.
The feature, called Confidential Compute, will make sure the data is being encrypted even when it’s being computed on in-memory. So far, it’s been encrypted while stored or while in transit on a network.
Microsoft Azure is the preferred cloud for Adobe Sign
Microsoft and Adobe are expanding on their partnership and further integrating their respective solutions to help people work more efficiently.
After the integration of Adobe Experience Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Dynamics, the time has come for Adobe Sign and Adobe Document Cloud to integrate with Microsoft's Office 365 suite in general.
Windows Server containers get native support on Red Hat OpenShift
Microsoft and Red Hat have a longstanding enterprise cloud partnership, and today the two tech giants reveal an expansion which sees Windows Server containers receiving native support on the OpenShift platform.
Support for Windows Server containers on OpenShift will first be available as a Technology Preview next spring, before reaching general availability later down the road.
Microsoft reveals Azure Event Grid
Microsoft has revealed a new Azure feature aimed at helping developers that build event-based applications. Azure Event Grid is built to help devs that create event-based and serverless applications with a higher level of abstraction.
That way, worrying about infrastructure, provisioning or scaling, becomes a thing of the past, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft buys Cycle Computing to strengthen cloud business
Microsoft has announced its plans to buy HPC company Cycle Computing in order to allow its customers to do more in the public cloud.
According to the company, the deal will enable its users to use high-performance computing as well as other "Big Computing" capabilities that will improve how they run their workloads in the cloud.
Delphix partners with Azure to ease cloud migration
Microsoft Azure is increasingly popular as a business cloud platform, but migrating to Azure often means bringing together data from a range of sources. Lack of access to this data can hinder development and slow delivery.
Data management specialist Delphix is launching a new Dynamic Data Platform for Azure, which offers enterprises the ability to streamline cloud migration projects, accelerate development and testing, and significantly reduce cost and complexity.
Try the public preview of new sign-in experience for Azure AD and Microsoft accounts
Microsoft has redesigned the sign-in process (or "experience" as the company refers to it) for both Azure AD and Microsoft accounts.
The interfaces for the sign-in screens for both types of account have been updated so they are the same, and there's now a Google-style two-page sign-in procedure. The updated design is available as a public preview and the change has come about through telemetry data collected by Microsoft.
Microsoft Q4 FY2017 by the numbers: $24.7 billion revenue, $7 billion profit
Microsoft has beaten analyst expectations once again with better than expected quarterly earnings.
The Redmond, Wash.-based giant has released its latest quarterly earnings, for Q4 FY2017, showing a non-GAAP revenue of $24.7 billion and GAAP earnings of $0.83 per share. Non-GAAP operating income sat at $7 billion.
Enhanced firewall integrates with Azure and DevOps tools
Cloud security specialist Barracuda Networks is announcing enhancements to its firewall products to help customers speed up Microsoft Azure adoption and become cloud ready.
Barracuda NextGen Firewall and Barracuda Web Application Firewall (WAF) both now integrate with Microsoft Operations Management Service (OMS). A Barracuda WAF specific dashboard is now available in the Azure Marketplace, making it easy for administrators to take advantage of this integration.
Microsoft to sell Box storage to Azure customers
Microsoft has announced a new tie-up with Box that will extend the intelligence and reach of its Azure cloud platform.
Under the terms of the deal, Box will now use Azure as a strategic cloud platform, with a new "Box on Azure" now being offered out to enterprise customers around the world.
Microsoft becomes open source Cloud Foundry Foundation Gold Member
Microsoft is an open source champion. It is weird to say, I know, but it is fact. Yeah, the company makes most of its money from closed source technologies, such as Windows and Office, but it is an open source contributor as well. It has made many quality open source projects available, such as Cognitive Toolkit and PowerShell. Heck, it was even revealed that Microsoft has the most open source contributors on GitHub! Its support for Linux on Azure deserves major kudos too.
Today, Microsoft takes its open source focus even further. You see, the Windows-maker has become an official Cloud Foundry Foundation Gold Member. Microsoft is in excellent company, with other big-name Gold Members, such as Google, Ford, and Huawei.
Microsoft Azure now supports OpenBSD
Microsoft continues to embrace not only Linux but BSD too, as it just revealed that Azure has added support for OpenBSD. The latest move comes more than two years after the cloud platform officially started to support FreeBSD virtual machines.
The OpenBSD support in Azure comes as a result of a collaboration between Microsoft and network security vendor Esdenera, which also sees the release of an OpenBSD-based firewall in the Azure Marketplace.
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