Microsoft typically devotes a chunk of Build, its annual developer conference in Seattle, to product unveilings, updates, and various announcements across its portfolio, and it stuck with tradition this year. During a keynote address on Monday, the company took the wraps off of the new and enhanced offerings in Azure, its cloud computing platform. internet […]
Solution providers have a massive opportunity for migrating Windows Server and SQL Server instances to the Azure cloud, helping to make Azure a smarter bet for partners than Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Channel Chief Gavriella Schuster told CRN in an interview. As support ends for SQL Server 2008 in July—followed by Windows Server 2008 in
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wynpnt / Pixabay For those businesses looking to move all or part of their workload to the cloud, trying to sort through the myriad of options can be an incredibly daunting task. While there are seemingly as many cloud providers as clouds dotting the sky, most enterprises will eventually find themselves staring down the dilemma
Amazon Web Services is an amazing constellation of products, but it’s far from the only game in the cloud world. Microsoft realized long ago that the future of enterprise computing lies in the cloud and it has been investing heavily in owning a piece of this market. The number of products sitting under the Azure
When you create a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure, you are required to assign it to an Azure Resource Group. This grouping structure may seem like just another bit of administrivia, but savvy users will utilize this structure for better governance and cost management for their infrastructure. What are Azure Resources Groups? Azure Resources Groups
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Microsoft and Red Hat have announced their collaboration in offering the first jointly managed OpenShift on Azure, the former’s public cloud. At the Red Hat Summit that opened on Tuesday, the teamup will allow enterprise developers to run container-based applications across on-premises and public clouds. Red Hat OpenShift, the company’s Kubernetes container application platform, has
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Microsoft Azure customers were pleasantly surprised today. The cloud computing company just announced that it has substantially dropped the price for its Azure Standard support to just $100 per month, making it the most affordable support package among the big three cloud computing firms. The price slash of the Azure Standard support, which was previously
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Microsoft’s Azure is finally gaining a foothold in the cloud computing niche with its market share jumping from 16 to 20 percent in the 4th quarter of 2017. The jump amounts to around $3.7 billion of its total revenue for the year. In contrast, Amazon Web Services (AWS) saw its market share drop from 68 to 62 percent in
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Cybersecurity expert Symantec is looking to cut down on its data center costs by moving some of its workload to Microsoft Azure. The deal between the two companies, which was revealed on Monday, would see Symantec delivering its Norton product line to its customers from Azure. Microsoft announced that Symantec has already moved “105 critical
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