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Microsoft has patched vulnerabilities in four different Azure cloud services. The security flaws could enable attackers to perform a server-side request forgery (SSRF) attack to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources. The security vulnerabilities were first discovered by researchers from Orca Security between mid-October and mid-December last year. The flaws affect various Microsoft cloud services…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Azure OpenAI service. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also unveiled its plans to launch OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot as a service to make it accessible to more customers. Microsoft launched its Azure OpenAI service back in November 2021. It enables businesses to integrate powerful AI tools (such as GPT-3.5,…

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a software-defined infrastructure that virtualizes and packages all the components of a conventional data center including network, storage, and computing resources. Hyperconverged infrastructure platforms allow businesses to virtualize servers, storage, and underlying networks and implement a software-driven control of their IT environment. In this article, we’ll look at the top 5…

A first look at Microsoft Azure’s new cross-platform hybrid management service, Azure Arc.

During its latest Ignite 2022 conference for IT pros in October, Microsoft announced the public preview for Azure Jumpstart HCIBox, as well as Azure Jumpstart ArcBox for DataOps. In this article, I’ll be explaining what these new products are for, and I’ll also guide you to the required resources to get you started with them….

Microsoft offers a highly flexible and easy to use web application service. With the myriad of languages, runtimes, and options available for web applications, managed services make application deployments and configuration exceptionally easy.

In the past few months, Azure Stack HCI pricing has been a hot topic in discussions with customers. Including the possibility of using Azure Stack HCI as a pay-as-you-go full OPEX solution. That’s an interrogation you may have had as well if you’ve ever worked with Azure Stack Edge, which is a hardware solution provided…

A hybrid cloud architecture is an environment that combines private computing resources with a public cloud. A public cloud is a cloud computing platform provided by a third-party company, and a good example would be Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or the Google Cloud Platform. In this article, we’ll explain how a hybrid cloud architecture works…

Azure ExpressRoute is Microsoft’s solution for extending an on-premises network into the Microsoft cloud with a private connection. In this article, I’ll be explaining how you can migrate an Azure ExpressRoute connection without experiencing any downtime. There are two possible scenarios for the migration of an Azure ExpressRoute connection. Your first option is to migrate…

Many Office 365 customers want to use Azure ExpressRoute to connect their on-premises network to the Microsoft cloud with a private connection. As you may know, though, Microsoft does not recommend using Azure ExpressRoute with Microsoft Peering to connect to Office 365. There are several reasons for that, let me point out a few of…