10 Reasons Why You Should Use Microsoft Azure Cloud Today

Published On Sat Aug 17 2024
10 Reasons Why You Should Use Microsoft Azure Cloud Today

Microsoft Azure Cloud -- Redmondmag.com

Starting in October, Microsoft will require multifactor authentication (MFA) for all Azure sign ins.

The Microsoft 365 Backup Storage platform, which includes Microsoft 365 Backup and its partner-focused Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, is now generally available.

Many of Microsoft's online and cloud services were unavailable on Tuesday morning due to what appears to be a widespread outage, which began a little before 5 a.m. PST.

With AI workloads demanding more from its datacenters, Microsoft is looking to outside partners for infrastructure support.

Microsoft Security: Architecture, Tools, and Technologies

As the dust settles on the massive CrowdStrike and Azure outage, conversations of what your organization should do in similar situations should happen now.

Microsoft this week announced the general availability of two new security solutions designed to help organizations achieve and manage zero trust environments.

Understanding the distinction between the two is crucial for organizations' cloud transformation.

It's not just Azure, though Azure support is a big culprit. So what can Microsoft do to fix it, and why is the answer AI?

Microsoft is extending the reach of its cloud security portfolio by inking yet another partnership with Big Blue's consulting arm.

Antitrust watchdogs are not letting up on the Microsoft-OpenAI mega-partnership.

Microsoft has taken the wraps off a new PowerShell module to help administrators programmatically manage and automate Entra ID via the command line.

Microsoft Strategy Teardown

Frenemies Oracle and Microsoft are combining their respective cloud platforms to give generative AI wunderkind OpenAI more room to innovate.

Security researchers at Google subsidiary Mandiant have traced the months-long Snowflake security breach to an attack group taking advantage of old credentials and weak authentication methods.

A public preview of a new, more feature-rich SKU of Microsoft's Azure Bastion virtual machine (VM) security product is now available.

Microsoft's AI and cloud portfolios are expected to be rolled into Hitachi's industry IoT software platform, thanks to a newly minted three-year partnership.

Microsoft this week updated its licensing options in hopes to increase VMware users to migrate to Azure.

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Microsoft on Wednesday announced it is developing a converged platform designed to streamline risk discovery and remediation, with zero trust baked at the core.

Microsoft last week announced that, starting in July, all users of Azure services will be required to set up and use multifactor authentication (MFA) when logging in.

Microsoft is continuing its global AI and cloud investment trend, this time with a 4 billion euro injection in France.

Microsoft and the Biden administration announced on Wednesday that the company is investing more than $3 billion in a new AI and cloud datacenter in southeast Wisconsin.

Among the avalanche of security announcements this week, Microsoft has kicked off the first day of RSAC 2024 by unveiling new capabilities to protect Gen AI applications in the enterprise with Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Continuing its aggressive global investment push in both AI and cloud infrastructure, Microsoft on Tuesday announced it is making a $1.7 billion investment in Indonesia.

With cyberattacks targeting Active Directory rising, it's up to IT to harden their environments.

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Recognizing that bigger isn't always better, Microsoft has released its smallest open AI models to date, Phi-3.

A federal review board concluded that lax security practices by Microsoft contributed to the Outlook hack by a Chinese hacker group last year in a comprehensive 34-page report.

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