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Depending on what part of the country you’re in, coping with power outages and having backup power may or may not play a big part in your disaster recovery plans. While it’s often overlooked, power is the one thing that all computing activities require, whether it is desktops, datacenters, or cloud computing. Backup power supplies…

Aidan Finn looks at some of the best practices for using the StorSimple 1200 virtual appliance.

In this guide, I’ll explain how AWS Lambda lets you run your code in a cloud-based ‘serverless’ infrastructure, and how you can create an AWS Lambda function to perform any type of computing task. There are four different ways to create an AWS Lambda function, but I’ll be using the web-based AWS Management Console to…

A question none of us like to think about too much is what we would do if a natural or man-made disaster took out Office 365 and disrupted service for an extended period. The good news is that the way Microsoft has built out Office 365 into datacenter regions helps to limit the effect of any outage, but the fact still remains that something bad could happen. What would you do then?

Microsoft Syntex has announced several new capabilities to improve content management and discovery for Syntex pay-as-you-go customers. The major highlights include Syntex taxonomy tagging and image tagging, extended support for optical character recognition (OCR), and much more. Microsoft Syntex is a service that uses AI and machine learning to find, organize, and classify documents in…

Google kicked off its annual I/O developer conference yesterday by showing it was very serious about catching up to competitors in the AI space. Duet AI is the new name of Google’s generative AI efforts, and the company detailed yesterday what to expect from Duet AI in Google Workspace, as well as Duet AI for…

In a bid to counter the Silicon Valley-centric nature of tech venture capital, Microsoft has created its own venture group. Dubbed Microsoft Ventures, this group will identify strategic and financial investments much earlier than has been the case so far, and will focus largely on cloud technologies.

At VMworld 2015 Europe, VMware announced changes to its cloud management platform to accelerate DevOps across public and private cloud environments.

MC244317 – Updated April 22, 2021: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft is pleased to announce the next phase of the new Yammer experience. In September 2020 (MC222345), they released an opt-in toggle for new Yammer for all users.  With this upcoming change, admins that have chosen the Enable the…

In my role as Petri’s Community Magnate, I will be interviewing a variety of IT-savvy technology folks. Some of these will be Petri contributors; some will be tech-company employees; some will be IT pros. We will be tackling various subject areas in the form of 30-minute audio interviews. I will be asking the questions, the…