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The European Union has opened an informal probe against Microsoft Azure cloud services. According to a report from Bloomberg, the antitrust watchdog is planning to investigate Microsoft over alleged anticompetitive behavior with Microsoft Azure. Specifically, the European Commission is soliciting feedback from Microsoft’s customers on whether or not to move to a deeper investigation. The…

  Learn more about Azure Stack HCI, a preconfigured, validated offering that enables you to deploy a cloud in your own datacenter. What is Azure Stack HCI? Microsoft Azure Stack HCI is a cluster solution, based on a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). It is designed to host virtualized Windows and Linux workloads and their storage in…

Microsoft has announced that its Azure Storage Mover is now generally available for enterprise customers. The new tool intends to make it easier to migrate files and folders from on-premises systems to Azure cloud storage. Microsoft’s Azure Storage Mover made its debut in public preview in December last year. The managed cloud migration service enables…

Microsoft’s new Azure Virtual Desktop app is available to download from the Microsoft Store. The company announced the app’s availability in public preview yesterday, and it runs on both Windows 11 and Windows 10 PCs. Until now, the only way to access Azure Virtual Desktop resources was to download the Microsoft Remote Desktop application. Additionally,…

Cohesity, a data security and management service provider, has announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft. The deal includes new software integrations on both platforms that should help to protect businesses against ransomware threats and cybersecurity attacks. First off, Cohesity has announced the integration of its DataProtect backup and recovery solution with Microsoft Sentinel. It will…

Microsoft has announced some new logging and metric improvements to provide more insights into Microsoft Azure Firewall traffic. The Latency Probe metric feature enables IT admins to monitor the overall latency and health of Azure Firewall to troubleshoot app performance issues. “In the case that Azure Firewall is experiencing latency, this can be due to…

Security researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). The security flaw allowed users to modify Bing search results and access users’ private data, including Outlook emails, calendars, and Microsoft Teams messages. Dubbed BingBang, the misconfiguration in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) was first discovered by Wiz researchers back in…

Microsoft has announced that it’s adding OpenAI’s GPT-4 to its Azure OpenAI Service. The new integration will enable organizations to utilize the large language model for building AI applications and services. Microsoft launched the Azure OpenAI service back in January 2023. It’s designed to provide access to OpenAI’s powerful language models, such as GPT-3, Codex,…

If your company is interested in modernizing its infrastructure with Azure hybrid computing capabilities, you can now do so by deploying Azure Stack HCI on a single-node cluster. In this guide, I will explain the main use cases for single-node deployments before showing you how to install Azure Stack HCI single-node clusters with PowerShell. How…

Microsoft has just announced a new ChatGPT integration coming to its Azure OpenAI Service. This release enables developers to add custom AI-powered capabilities to build their next-generation applications. Microsoft partnered with OpenAI to launch the Azure OpenAI Service in private preview in November 2021. It’s a cloud-based solution that allows developers to access OpenAI’s powerful…