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At this past virtual Ignite 2021 conference, Microsoft announced that their Microsoft Defender for Cloud service will provide native support for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Multi-cloud protection has become a priority for most businesses. Flexera’s 2021 State of the Cloud report showed that 92% of organizations now have a multi-cloud strategy. Microsoft Defender for Cloud…

Aidan Finn delves into the mists of the future to discover what will work and what will not in the world of Hyper-V and the Microsoft cloud in 2018.

Microsoft currently offers both on-premises Windows Server versions and Azure in the cloud. But with the coming generation of Nano Server capabilities in Windows Server vNext, the differences between these product lines are about to blur even further. You can learn more about Nano Server in Aidan Finn’s article, Microsoft Announces Nano Server. And be…

Microsoft has announced the public preview of its new Microsoft Defender for APIs solution. The new powerful tool enables organizations to improve the security and management of their “business-critical APIs.” Microsoft explained that Defender for APIs is available as part of its Microsoft Defender for Cloud service. It’s a security solution that protects cloud-native applications…

Microsoft has released a new update for its Windows 365 Enterprise service. The company detailed a new feature that allows IT admins to move their Cloud PCs to a new region or Azure network connection (ANC). “By editing a provisioning policy, you can move existing Cloud PCs from their current region or Azure network connection…

Our next MJFChat, scheduled for Monday, June 24, is between me and Rimma Nehme, Azure Cosmos DB Product Manager and Architect. The general topic of our chat is Cosmos DB, Microsoft’s NoSQL, multi-model, distributed database.

SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBM) developed by Microsoft that competes with Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other RDBMs. In this article, I’ll explain in detail what SQL Server is and go through its release history over the past three decades. I’ll also detail what are the different SQL Server versions…

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, Azure has a new space connection, should you migrate from tape storage, and Rick visits a special place in Brad’s heart.

This Week in IT, there’s a critical Alert for MS 365 Admins: Your Emails Might Be at Risk with Google’s New Anti-Spam Rules – Discover Vital Steps to Ensure Seamless Communication Now! Plus, what you can do to protect your Windows Server 2012/R2 workloads as it reaches end of support, Active Directory is getting some…

If you haven’t moved to a hybrid cloud scenario, you should consider these benefits as there are many reasons to upgrade your environment.