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…
Microsoft is launching today Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty, a new cloud offering for the government sector. The new cloud solution is meant to help government and public sector customers build, move, and operate sensitive data and workloads in the cloud while supporting the highest security and compliance standards. A sovereign cloud is a cloud infrastructure…
Microsoft is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its Windows 365 Cloud PC service that launched back in July 2021. The company has highlighted some new enhancements in Windows 365 that should help to boost cloud transformation across multiple industries. Windows 365 is a cloud-based service that enables employees to access their Windows desktops from any…
Last Update: Jul 15, 2022
Azure Resource Mover provides a single pane of glass for managing cross-regions move operations.
Last Update: Jul 15, 2022
Azure Bastion provides an easy way to secure virtual machines that might otherwise be directly exposed to the Internet.
Google Cloud today announced Tau T2A, its first virtual machines (VMs) based on the Arm architecture. The company has also unveiled a fully-managed job scheduling service dubbed Google Cloud Batch. In a press release, Google explained that the latest Tau T2A virtual machines are powered by Ampere Altra Arm-based processors. The VMs comes in various…
Last Update: Jul 07, 2022
In this post, I’ll detail five essential principles for successful cloud adoption. Note that while I am biased towards Microsoft Azure, these essentials are the same for cloud projects targeting Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and so on. Cloud adoption experience I have had the opportunity to work with public and private sector clients…
Microsoft’s Azure cloud is experiencing capacity issues due to ongoing supply chain constraints. According to a new report from The Information, over two dozen Azure datacenters worldwide are currently operating with limited server capacity. In March 2020, Microsoft started experiencing an increased demand for its cloud services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, Microsoft Teams…
Last Update: Jul 06, 2022
As we head into the new year, here are the hybrid cloud trends that we expect to see in 2019.
Microsoft has indefinitely delayed its plans to block auto-renewals of monthly subscriptions that are currently sold by Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs). CSPs are partners that can directly provision, manage, and support customer subscriptions for Microsoft products. The software giant had planned to begin blocking automatic monthly renewals for older accounts on July 11. It planned…