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Last week, Microsoft announced two new virtual machines (VMs) for Azure HPC customers. The new HX-series and HBv4-series VMs are powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors that promise cost efficiency and higher performance. Azure HPC is a purpose-built cloud service that delivers storage, computing and data management services for high-performance computing (HPC) applications. Azure’s…

Microsoft has released its new Azure DDoS IP Protection SKU in public preview. It’s a cost-effective enterprise-grade endpoint security solution aimed at protecting small and midsize businesses (SMBs) against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. “It offers the same essential capabilities as Azure DDoS Network Protection to protect your resources and applications against evolving DDoS attacks, including…

AAD Basic edition is ‘going away’ because it is low volume and confuses customers.

Google announces a new Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory that should give customers more options about which cloud service fits their needs.

Azure Data Factory is a cloud-based data integration platform from Microsoft. It allows organizations to gather data from multiple sources and perform various data engineering operations in a code-free way. For organizations struggling to manage and extract insights from exponentially increasing amounts of data, ADF can be a more efficient and cost-effective way to do…

If you plan to manage and work with Azure along with Terraform, using the Azure provider is a must. The Terraform Azure Provider lets you interact with the many resources supported by Microsoft Azure. In this ultimate guide, you’re going to learn, step-by-step, about everything you need to know about the Azure Provider and how to use this provider with…

Microsoft has patched a critical in Azure Service Fabric dubbed “FabricScape” that affects containerized workloads on Linux. The software giant urges customers to upgrade their clusters as soon as possible to prevent successful exploits. Azure Service Fabric is basically a distributed systems platform that allows developers to build and host microservices-based cloud apps. It powers…

It’s time for you and your team to take a short break from your busy work demands and deadlines to refresh, revitalize and invest in yourselves at ESPC22, Nov 28 – Dec 1 – Europe’s premier Microsoft technologies conference. ESPC22 offers you the choice of 9 expert-led full-day Microsoft 365 and Azure tutorials. This is…

Microsoft has acknowledged that customers may experience domain name system (DNS) issues while accessing some Azure cloud services. The company confirmed that the problem is specifically affecting users running Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 on Azure virtual machines (VMs). According to Microsoft, the Azure outage started at around 2 AM ET on August 30. It impacted several…

Microsoft launched a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines (VMs) in April this year. Now, the company has announced that the Ampere Altra Arm-powered Azure VMs would become generally available on September 1. Microsoft claims that the Arm-based virtual machines deliver up to 50 percent better performance than similar instances running on x86…