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In this article, we are going to take a brief look at what Azure Sphere is and how it is helping to protect Internet of Things (IoT) devices with additional security overlay. In today’s world, we are surrounded by billions of devices – all with microcontrollers embedded in them for control and to add logic….

Security researchers have uncovered five critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure Defender for IoT. The Redmond giant has already released new security patches to address these exploits, and it recommends all enterprise customers to install them as soon as possible. According to a report from SentinelOne‘s SentinelLabs, these security vulnerabilities were first discovered by researchers Kasif…

Curious about what Azure IoT is? At Microsoft’s WPC conference I had a chance to sit down with the company and talk about their solution.

Microsoft has teamed up with Oracle to launch a new service called “Oracle Database Service for Azure.” The latest offering provides Microsoft Azure customers access to databases running in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Microsoft explained that enterprise customers can now provision and manage Oracle-hosted database services directly within the Azure cloud dashboard. The service lets…

Microsoft has launched a new Update Management Center (UMS) in public preview. The new service is designed to make it easier for IT admins to manage updates for all Azure and Linux machines on Azure and Azure Arc-enabled servers. Essentially, Update Management Center is the latest iteration of Microsoft’s Azure Automation Update Management solution. For…

Azure Resource Mover provides a single pane of glass for managing cross-regions move operations.

Azure Bastion provides an easy way to secure virtual machines that might otherwise be directly exposed to the Internet.

Microsoft announced a new Azure service this week called Bastion which makes it significantly easier to securely and remotely connect to your non-connected VMs.

As we head into the new year, here are the hybrid cloud trends that we expect to see in 2019.

By the time you read this, it will be 2020. I hope you have had a great holiday season and are feeling all relaxed and ready for a new semester of Azure action.