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The Microsoft Cloud App Security service now can detect applications that fall out of compliance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy law, Microsoft announced this week.
05/31/2018
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Microsoft this month announced a preview of the ability to log into a Linux-based VM running on its Azure public cloud service using Azure Active Directory credentials.
05/30/2018
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From how virtual machines can impact your Azure IaaS and Paas uptimes to what to never do, top cloud architect Peter De Tender offers his best tips and tricks for reaching 99.95 percent uptime by optimizing your SLA.
05/29/2018
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Microsoft on Friday highlighted its multiple resources for staying in compliance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation.
05/25/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Thanks to a new feature in Microsoft's commercial cloud storage service, businesses don't have to choose between paying a hefty ransom or kissing their files goodbye.
05/24/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The obvious solution (add more physical storage) is usually easier said than done. Here are some short-term fixes that can buy you some time -- and reveal some pockets of spare storage you might not know you had.
05/22/2018
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Microsoft experts on Windows and Azure responded to a few questions post-Build about how the company has been simplifying the developer experience, from spinning up containers to tapping microservices.
05/21/2018
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Microsoft this week announced SQL Advanced Threat Protection, which is described as "a new security package" for Azure SQL Database users.
05/18/2018
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Microsoft announced a number of improvements to Azure Active Directory this month.
05/17/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
If you're familiar with how to access a USB device from inside a VMware environment, be aware -- the process isn't quite as seamless as it is in Hyper-V. Here's how to do it in Hyper-V at the host and client levels.
05/17/2018
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A standard reaction to a private company sharing fairly specific financial results on a regular basis is to assume that they're trying to attract a buyer, but Veeam insists that's not the case.
05/15/2018
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Microsoft announced the preview of Project Brainwave, "programmable hardware" that sits on Intel's FPGA chips and is designed to help "greatly speed up" AI calculations.
05/14/2018
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Microsoft this week offered a progress report on its Azure confidential computing project, mostly highlighting its partner efforts.
05/10/2018
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Red Hat and Microsoft offered a progress report on their collaboration efforts this week and promised to deliver a preview of Red Hat OpenShift on Azure "in the coming months."
05/08/2018
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Microsoft announced during this week's Build Conference that its Azure Kubernetes Service, formerly known as "managed Kubernetes on Azure," will reach general availability status "in the next few weeks."
05/08/2018
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning took center stage at the Microsoft Build 2018 conference in Seattle on Monday.
05/07/2018
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At Build 2018, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveiled a fourth-generation version of the company's discontinued Kinect motion-sensing device, which is being repurposed for AI, Azure, edge computing and IoT.
05/07/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Private virtual networks are the most secure virtual network because they never communicate with the Hyper-V host or with the physical network. But what exactly happens when you create one?
05/04/2018
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Satya Nadella says he's never seen a database scale as quickly as Cosmos DB.
04/30/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Home is where your data is. If you need to access data remotely, and neither a VPN connection nor traditional cloud storage will do the trick, consider using OneDrive as a proxy for remote file access.
04/27/2018
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Microsoft is bringing its OneDrive file-sharing and collaboration capabilities seen with Windows desktop and Web applications to Office for Mac, as well as to Android and iOS mobile applications.
04/26/2018
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the "general availability" of Azure Container Instances, a serverless runtime that's designed to make it easier for developers to spin up containers on Microsoft's public datacenter infrastructure.
04/26/2018
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Microsoft reported earnings on Thursday of $0.95 per share on revenues of $26.82 billion.
04/26/2018
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Foley on Microsoft
If Microsoft makes a bunch of updates to its Dynamics business but nobody is around to communicate it, does it make a sound?
04/25/2018
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Microsoft this week announced tooling enhancements to help organizations using Azure and Office 365 services meet the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation requirements.
04/20/2018