by ray | Feb 2, 2019 | Azure, Microsoft
Microsoft has announced making a strategic investment in ride-sharing service Grab, as one of the first moves under a recently forged partnership between the two companies. Grab will also adopt Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platform, hoping to use the...
by ray | Feb 2, 2019 | Azure, Microsoft
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft announced today that it’s joining the Open Invention Network (OIN), an open-source patent group designed to help protect Linux from patent lawsuits. In essence, this makes the company’s library over 60,000 patents...
by ray | Feb 1, 2019 | Azure, Microsoft
Three years ago, Mark Russinovich, CTO of Azure, Microsoft’s cloud program, said, “One in four [Azure] instances are Linux.” Then, in 2017, it was 40 percent Azure virtual machines (VM) were Linux. Today, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s...
by ray | Jan 29, 2019 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, Azure, Microsoft
The U.S. Defense Department is running a winner-take-all competition to choose a cloud-computing company to host its trove of information, perhaps including top national-security secrets, so that warfighters and military leaders can make data-driven decisions at...
by ray | Jan 29, 2019 | Azure, Microsoft
It is my pleasure to announce the availability of the public preview of the Azure Sphere Security Service, Azure Sphere Operating System, and Visual Studio development experience for Azure Sphere. Today’s announcement marks an important milestone in...
by ray | Nov 14, 2018 | Azure, Microsoft
As I woke up early morning I read news about the Azure South Central US Datacenter outage caused by cooling problems. On Linkedin I saw multiple posts from Azure experts that DR should have been implemented for the applications and databases. There were multiple...
