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Google EU complaint: Microsoft is punishing enterprises that use rivals to Azure

CIO

Google on Wednesday told the European Union (EU) that Microsoft is illegally using its dominant market position in Windows to force enterprises to use its Azure cloud service or face a 400% price penalty and a denial of upgrades and security patches. Now the company is running the same playbook to push companies to Azure, its cloud platform.

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Autoscaling Azure DevOps Pipelines Agents with KEDA

Xebia

These pipelines require a complex set of tools installed on self-hosted Azure DevOps agents. To address these challenges, our architect proposed using Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling as an auto-scaling solution for our Azure DevOps Agent Pools. Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ), database events, HTTP requests, and many more.

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Microsoft, Oracle deliver direct access to Oracle database services on Azure

CIO

Oracle is collocating its Oracle database hardware (including Oracle Exadata) and software in Microsoft Azure data centers, giving customers direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) via Azure. AI exists because of data,” he said. You need to have access to data.

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Key Vault Secrets: Integration with Azure Arc

Apiumhub

Maintaining privacy and ensuring secure access to critical resources is a critical task for IT teams in today’s multi-cloud and hybrid environments Azure Arc-enabling organizations to extend the functionality and security capabilities of Azure on-premises and in the cloud. What is Azure Arc? What Does Azure Arc Do?

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Modernizing Workloads with the Cloud: How to Improve Performance & Reduce Costs

By modernizing and shifting legacy workloads to the cloud, organizations are able to improve the performance and reliability of their applications while reducing infrastructure cost and management.

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Enterprise Migration | Part 2: Migrating Applications to Azure

QBurst

An IaC framework was developed to speed up deployment and an Azure Landing Zone was deployed during this phase. […] The post Enterprise Migration | Part 2: Migrating Applications to Azure appeared first on QBurst Blog.

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Securing Azure Service Bus

Xebia

Let’s examine common security risks, understand the importance of data encryption and various robust authentication methods such as Azure AD and shared access signatures, explore strategies for network protection, and emphasize the value of logging for enhanced oversight. By default, Azure Service Bus supports TLS 1.2

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