Tag Archives: Azure

After AWS and Google, Microsoft says it’s removing Azure ‘egress’ data transfer fees — but with caveats

After AWS and Google, Microsoft says it’s removing Azure ‘egress’ data transfer fees — but with caveats

Image Credits: Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images Microsoft has revealed that it, too, will allow business customers to transfer data out of its Azure cloud infrastructure with no “egress fees” attached, following hot on the heels of similar moves by cloud rivals AWS and Google. While Microsoft positions the announcement as a voluntary pro-customer move, the fact that it was quietly revealed with little fanfare via a short blog post might suggest… Source link

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Azure blunder left Bing results editable, MS 365 accounts potentially exposed • The Register

Azure blunder left Bing results editable, MS 365 accounts potentially exposed • The Register

An Azure Active Directory (AAD) misconfiguration by Microsoft in one of its own cloud-hosted applications could have allowed miscreants to subvert the IT giant’s Bing search engine – even changing search results. User information including Outlook emails, calendars, and Teams messages was also left vulnerable to potential theft and snooping. Wiz researchers discovered the security blunder, and said the error – which they dubbed BingBang – was due to an authorization… Source link

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Microsoft Azure losing money on $29 bln in revenue

Microsoft Azure losing money on  bln in revenue

Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., during the company’s Ignite Spotlight event in Seoul on Nov. 15, 2022. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google has for years been playing catch-up in the cloud infrastructure market, where it’s seen in the industry as a distant third in the U.S., behind Amazon and Microsoft. The challenge for investors is that the three companies don’t report cloud infrastructure metrics in a way that makes them easily comparable. However, an… Source link

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ClearScale CEO: Why Customers Pick AWS Over Azure, Google

ClearScale CEO: Why Customers Pick AWS Over Azure, Google

Cloud News Mark Haranas September 27, 2022, 11:18 AM EDT “If you’re going to invest millions of dollars and pick a public cloud partner that you may use for the next 10 years or more, you want to pick the one that’s the strongest in the market, has the best technology, the best customer service, continued innovation and is… Source link

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Cloud Computing Market 2022 Report Covers Top Key Players Profiling – Yandex, Pivotal, Microsoft Azure, Citrix Systems, Avaya, Alibaba

Cloud Computing Market 2022 Report Covers Top Key Players Profiling – Yandex, Pivotal, Microsoft Azure, Citrix Systems, Avaya, Alibaba

The recent report on “Cloud Computing Market” offered by Credible Markets, comprises of a comprehensive investigation into the geographical landscape, industry size along with the revenue estimation of the business. Additionally, the report also highlights the challenges impeding market growth and expansion strategies employed by leading companies in the “Cloud Computing Market”. An exhaustive competition analysis that covers insightful data on industry leaders is intended to help… Source link

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Google Looker gets Azure support, API explorer

Google Looker gets Azure support, API explorer

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. A day after its Security Summit, Google announced new features heading to Looker, the business intelligence platform it acquired in 2019 for $2.6 billion. The newest version of Looker — Looker 21 — introduces a revamped portal and extension framework as well as support for hosting on Microsoft Azure. Looker makes use of a modeling language called LookML that lets data teams define the relationships… Source link

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Azure founders reflect on Microsoft’s first decade as a public cloud vendor

Azure founders reflect on Microsoft’s first decade as a public cloud vendor

Microsoft’s Azure operating system, codenamed “Red Dog,” was designed by a team of Microsoft OS experts including Dave Cutler, the father of VMS and Windows NT starting in latter half of the 2000s. Azure launched in February 2010 and has become the foundation of the “new” Microsoft over the past decade. In 2008, I had a chance to interview the Azure founding-team members. This month,… Source link

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