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Many Office 365 customers want to use Azure ExpressRoute to connect their on-premises network to the Microsoft cloud with a private connection. As you may know, though, Microsoft does not recommend using Azure ExpressRoute with Microsoft Peering to connect to Office 365. There are several reasons for that, let me point out a few of…

If you are working in a multi-cloud environment involving Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, you may be using AWS Direct Connect or Azure ExpressRoute to set up a private interconnection to your on-premises resources. In this article, I’ll explain how you can enable AWS Direct Connect redundancy with Microsoft’s Azure ExpressRoute by using physical…

Last week, Microsoft announced two new virtual machines (VMs) for Azure HPC customers. The new HX-series and HBv4-series VMs are powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors that promise cost efficiency and higher performance. Azure HPC is a purpose-built cloud service that delivers storage, computing and data management services for high-performance computing (HPC) applications. Azure’s…

Microsoft has partnered with Google, AMD, and NVIDIA to create a new open specification for a silicon Root of Trust (RoT), dubbed Caliptra. What is silicon root of trust? Silicon root of trust, sometimes referred to as hardware root of trust, creates a chain of trust starting in the hardware used to boot a device….

Last week, Microsoft released the Basic edition of its Azure Firewall service in public preview. It’s an affordable plan designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) who want to protect their Azure cloud environments. Microsoft launched Azure Firewall with a Standard SKU in 2018. It’s a cloud-based network security service that helps users to protect…

Azure Bastion native client support provides a secure way to log into Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs) using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) or Secure Shell (SSH). There’s no need to expose the VMs to the Internet, or even to your network. That means you can “air gap” the virtual machines to prevent zero-day…

The Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) is a cross-platform command line tool allowing IT pros to connect to Azure services and execute administrative commands within the tenant. After installing the Azure CLI locally, you can execute commands using the terminal of your choice. In this article, we’re going to detail how to download, install, and get…

As we’re currently going through times of economic uncertainty, an Azure certification can really help IT pros stay ahead of the curve. You may think that getting IT certifications are not worth the time and effort. However, if you’re interested in Azure and willing to future-proof your career, getting an Azure certification can really help….

Azure Data Factory is a cloud-based data integration platform from Microsoft. It allows organizations to gather data from multiple sources and perform various data engineering operations in a code-free way. For organizations struggling to manage and extract insights from exponentially increasing amounts of data, ADF can be a more efficient and cost-effective way to do…

Microsoft has patched a critical in Azure Service Fabric dubbed “FabricScape” that affects containerized workloads on Linux. The software giant urges customers to upgrade their clusters as soon as possible to prevent successful exploits. Azure Service Fabric is basically a distributed systems platform that allows developers to build and host microservices-based cloud apps. It powers…