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Microsoft Dev Box Goes Out of Preview

Microsoft launched its Dev Box cloud-powered workstations in public preview back in August 2022. The company announced yesterday that it has decided to make the service generally available following successful testing in multiple organizations. Microsoft first teased Dev Box at its Build developer conference last year. The new offering provides secure access to pre-configured developer…

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Google Takes on Microsoft with New Antitrust Complaint Over Cloud Practices

Google has officially filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), according to a report from The Information. The company claimed that Microsoft abused its dominant position in the enterprise software market to push more customers toward its cloud services. In a letter to the FTC, Google explained that Microsoft used…

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The Ultimate Guide to Web Application Firewalls (WAF)

An often-overlooked element of security is the Web Application Firewall (WAF), especially in cloud computing. In this article, I explain what a WAF does, the different kinds of WAF, and I discuss why you should deploy one or more WAFs in your architecture. What is a Web Application Firewall (WAF)? A Web Application Firewall, often…

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Microsoft Confirms Recent Cloud Outages Caused By Storm-1359 DDoS Attacks

Earlier this month, Microsoft confirmed a major outage that affected Azure, Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services. The company has now acknowledged that the disruption to its services was caused by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. On June 5th, Microsoft tweeted about an outage that prevented thousands of users from accessing its…

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Google Opens Pre-Orders for Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise

Google has opened pre-orders for Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise, a new collection of generative AI features for its cloud-based productivity suite. With this new offering, Google said that it has taken into account the feedback the company received when it announced the Duet AI for Google Workspace public beta at its annual I/O…

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Google Workspace Introduces Passkey Support to Protect Users Against Phishing Attacks

Last month, Google introduced passkey support for consumer Google accounts. The company has now expanded the passwordless login solution to Google Workspace business accounts. Passkeys is a passwordless authentication mechanism developed by the FIDO Alliance, including Google, Microsoft, and Apple. The feature allows users to log in to their phones or computers with a PIN,…

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Nvidia Announces New Hardware and Services for Enterprise AI at Computex

Nvidia announced several new AI products at the Computex annual trade show in Taipei, Taiwan. The biggest announcements made by the chip maker include the Nvidia DGX GH200, a new supercomputer designed for enterprise AI, an accelerated networking platform for hyperscale generative AI, as well as a new modular server architecture optimized for AI workloads….

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Microsoft Dev Box Adds New Features Ahead of its General Availability in July

Microsoft Dev Box, the company’s new Azure service that provides access to a developer workstation in the cloud is getting new features ahead of its general availability. Following the launch of a public preview back in August, Microsoft announced at its Build developer conference today that Microsoft Dev Box will become generally available in July…

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Microsoft Changes Windows Server 2022 Licensing Policies

Microsoft is changing its Windows Server 2022 licensing policies to better compete with rivals. Earlier this month, the company quietly updated the Product Terms page with three major changes that should help organizations to reduce costs and drive cloud adoption (via The Register). Microsoft explained that customers no longer need a minimum of 16 core…

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Cloud Computing and the Energy Crisis: Is Building More Data Centers Sustainable?

In this post, I want to discuss a topic that is getting an increasing amount of attention in Europe: the impact of cloud computing on the energy sector. This was already a concern before the current energy crisis started, but the power consumption of cloud computing is rarely out of the news now. First of…

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