The Linux and open-source landscapes are changing rapidly. With so many companies embracing remote work and operations this year, we’re seeing more organizations running large-scale, mission-critical Linux and open-source workloads than ever before. IT teams need technical resources that can keep up—now. Even organizations that had already begun moving to the cloud are now finding […]
Archives for November 2020
UK gov urged to help SMBs with digital adoption incentives
An advocate for tech startups is urging the UK government to find ways of incentivising tech adoption for SMBs to boost the country’s productivity. The Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec) have called for a digital adoption fund that provides tax reliefs to SMBs and greater collaboration from the UK’s startup ecosystem. In its report, […]
Meeting developer needs with powerful new features in Azure Cache for Redis
In May, we announced a groundbreaking partnership with Redis Labs to bring their Redis Enterprise software to Azure as a part of Azure Cache for Redis. We were humbled by the level of excitement and interest we received. We are announcing that you can now use Redis to tackle new challenges while making your caches […]
New enhanced DNS features in Azure Firewall—now generally available
This post was co-authored by Adam Stuart, Technical Specialist, Azure Networking Custom DNS, DNS proxy, and FQDN filtering in network rules (for non-HTTP/S and non-MSSQL protocols) in Azure Firewall are now generally available. In this blog, we also share an example use-case on using DNS proxy with Private Link. Azure Firewall is a cloud-native firewall as […]
Advancing global network reliability through intelligent software—part 1 of 2
“Microsoft’s global network connects over 60 Azure regions, over 220 Azure data centers, over 170 edge sites, and spans the globe with more than 165,000 miles of terrestrial and subsea fiber. The global network connects to the rest of the internet via peering at our strategically placed edge points of presence (PoPs) around the world. […]
IBM Expands Hybrid Cloud Initiative with 5G Push
News IBM Expands Hybrid Cloud Initiative with 5G Push By David Ramel 11/06/2020 Having gone all in on the hybrid cloud, IBM is expanding its new initiative with a partnership push to roll out 5G wireless implementations as part of the new IBM Cloud for Telecommunications. IBM, often trailing leaders AWS, Azure and Google Cloud […]
3 ways to ease the green data storage transition
As more organizations contemplate transitioning to an energy-efficient data center, green data storage is gaining attention. With several storage technology choices available, the main challenge green storage adopters face is finding and following their best approach to energy savings. Here are three important factors to keep in mind when making the transition to green data […]
Episode 23: Translating enterprise blockchain innovation through art
<!– –> Share this post: Listen to this IBM Blockchain Pulse Podcast episode and others on iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn and Stitcher. Enterprise blockchain innovation through art The IBM Blockchain Pulse has had a lot of extraordinary guests featured on the podcast so far. They’ve featured leaders in government and business, space tech executives and designers, […]
Podcast: Ayana Miller on Privacy & Data Governance and Julia Nguyen on Mental Health Tech for Good
00:05 Introducing Ayana Miller 00:05 Ayana Miller: Good day, folks. This is Shane Hastie for the InfoQ Engineering Culture Podcast. We’re at QCon San Francisco 2019 and I am sitting down with Ayana Miller from Pinterest. Ayana, welcome. Thanks very much for taking the time to talk to us today. 00:19 Ayana Miller: Thank you […]
Microsoft 365 outage blamed on botched network driver update
A network driver problem resulted in some users being unable to access their Exchange Online mailboxes on Microsoft 365 for approximately 12 hours. In a tweet on 5 November at 8.13PM, Microsoft said that it was investigating an issue “wherein some users may be unable to access their mailboxes through Exchange Online via all connection […]