SONiC opens more opportunities for network innovation

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SONiC, as an open-source operating system for network devices, has been growing rapidly in the last five years. According to Gartner Market Guide for Data Center Switching published early this year, they predict, “By 2025, 40 percent of organizations that operate large datacenter networks (more than 200 switches)...

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Advancing service resilience in Azure Active Directory with its backup authentication service

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The most critical promise of our identity services is ensuring that every user can access the apps and services they need without interruption. We’ve been strengthening this promise to you through a multi-layered approach, leading to our improved promise of 99.99 percent authentication uptime for Azure Active Directory...

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Microsoft expands cloud services with two new datacenters in Wyoming

Today, I’m thrilled to share that we are announcing the launch of two new Microsoft datacenters in Cheyenne, Wyoming—one in Cheyenne Business Parkway and another in Bison Business Park—enabling us to expand and support the growth and demand for our digital services in our West Central US datacenter...

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Discover what’s new to Microsoft database services—recap from Microsoft Ignite

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Whether it’s SQL Server, Azure SQL, open source, or NoSQL, Microsoft’s database services are here to help you build cloud-native applications or modernize existing applications with fully managed, flexible databases.Last week at Microsoft Ignite, there were many announcements to help organizations regardless of where they are in their...

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Microsoft and AT&T are accelerating the enterprise customer’s journey to the edge with 5G

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Today, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment that’s impacting many enterprise customers’ digital transformation needs. In this place where cloud meets the edge, compute meets mobile, and 5G trends continue to drive innovation—customer demand for advanced network capabilities is surging. For customers, the promise of all these...

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Bringing commercial innovations in chip design to national security

Semiconductors and microelectronics are some of the most important components in building cutting-edge capabilities for our national security and defense technologies, from satellites and radar to vehicles and communications equipment. Ensuring these components are developed with the utmost regard for security is a critical, yet challenging task. Historically,...

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Learn how Microsoft Azure is accelerating hardware innovations for a sustainable future

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This year’s theme for OCP Global Summit is Open Possibilities, and in the Microsoft Azure team, we wholeheartedly agree—we have been part of tremendous creativity and resiliency as the community continued to collaborate, despite the challenges posed by the pandemic. This year, we are excited to showcase some...

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Complement your Microsoft AZ-104 Exam Prep with Practice Test

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You may be often contemplated why IT professionals work hard to pass Microsoft certification exams. What’s so good about these certifications? In addition to being bizarre about the most advanced cloud technologies and aspiring to learn more about them, there are other reasons back for this. One of...

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Protect workloads with inline DDoS protection from Gateway Load Balancer partners

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DDoS attacks are rapidly evolving in complexity and frequency. As we highlighted in our 2021 Q1 and Q2 DDoS attack trends review, we see that attacks in Azure have been trending toward shorter durations, mostly short-burst attacks. Workloads that are highly sensitive to latency, such as those in...

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Key foundations for protecting your data with Azure confidential computing

The exponential growth of datasets has resulted in growing scrutiny of how data is exposed—both from a consumer data privacy and compliance perspective. In this context, confidential computing becomes an important tool to help organizations meet their privacy and security needs surrounding business and consumer data.Confidential computing technology...

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3 ways to enhance your cloud journey: break, prepare, and optimize your apps in Azure

At our Microsoft Ignite conference this week, we’re sharing new ways to continue to enhance your cloud adoption journey. First, we are excited to announce the preview of Azure Chaos Studio—a fully managed experimentation service to help you track, measure, and mitigate faults with controlled chaos engineering, systemically...

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Transform your business with Microsoft's unrivaled end-to-end data platform

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Businesses today are experiencing the most significant change in our economy in a generation and the ability to realize the full potential of the cloud through digital transformation has never been greater. There are three core capabilities businesses need that together drive successful transformation: limitless database scale and...

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