Microsoft has inked a landmark energy agreement with Constellation Energy to power its datacenters by reviving a unit of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/23/2024
In preview since November 2023, Microsoft's Windows App solution is now generally available for Web browsers, as well as Windows, macOS, iOS and iPadOS devices.
Recognizing the immense infrastructure demands of today's AI technologies, Microsoft is throwing its support behind a new multibillion-dollar datacenter investment fund.
Let's start with that disastrous opt-in MFA policy.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 09/17/2024
A U.S. government agency is proposing a new rule that would require AI and cloud vendors to provide regular reports about the safety and capability of their products.
A year after it was first unveiled, the Oracle Database@Azure infrastructure-as-a-service offering from Oracle and Microsoft is getting significant new capabilities.
Microsoft has launched Prompt Shields, a new security feature now generally available, aimed at safeguarding applications powered by Foundation Models (large language models) for its Azure OpenAI Service.
Sway AI announced on Monday that it has integrated its flagship low-code/no-code (LCNC) AI platform with Microsoft Azure, allowing Azure customers to build and deploy secure AI and machine learning (ML) applications directly within the Azure ecosystem.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/20/2024
Starting in October, Microsoft will require multifactor authentication (MFA) for all Azure sign ins.
The Microsoft 365 Backup Storage platform, which includes Microsoft 365 Backup and its partner-focused Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, is now generally available.
Many of Microsoft's online and cloud services were unavailable on Tuesday morning due to what appears to be a widespread outage, which began a little before 5 a.m. PST.
With AI workloads demanding more from its datacenters, Microsoft is looking to outside partners for infrastructure support.
As the dust settles on the massive CrowdStrike and Azure outage, conversations of what your organization should do in similar situations should happen now.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 07/19/2024
Understanding the distinction between the two is crucial for organizations' cloud transformation.
- By Gladys Rama, Chris Paoli
- 07/08/2024
It's not just Azure, though Azure support is a big culprit. So what can Microsoft do to fix it, and why is the answer AI?
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 07/03/2024
Microsoft is extending the reach of its cloud security portfolio by inking yet another partnership with Big Blue's consulting arm.
Antitrust watchdogs are not letting up on the Microsoft-OpenAI mega-partnership.
Frenemies Oracle and Microsoft are combining their respective cloud platforms to give generative AI wunderkind OpenAI more room to innovate.
Security researchers at Google subsidiary Mandiant have traced the months-long Snowflake security breach to an attack group taking advantage of old credentials and weak authentication methods.
A public preview of a new, more feature-rich SKU of Microsoft's Azure Bastion virtual machine (VM) security product is now available.