The security service integrates with services from companies such as Barracuda, Checkpoint, Cisco, CloudFlare, F5 Networks, Inc., Imperva and Trend Micro Inc. Alternatively, organizations can select firewalls available in the Azure Gallery.
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“Solutions such as SharePoint with a unified search database hosted by Equinix, disaster recovery of SharePoint online sites [and] Active Directory synchronization and backup are a few examples of opportunities (for partners)”, Iraca said.
These investments come as enterprises move more and more of their workloads to the cloud, rather than keep them on internal servers, which is both capital intensive (requires real estate and purchase of expensive hardware and software) and operationally expensive (because of the need to hire an army of IT staff to maintain the systems and pay for expensive power and air-conditioning to cool the systems). It possibly could make the cloud appear more secure than premises-based environments, he speculated.
Azure’s new security features allow users to create policies for how the cloud service is being used and set alerts if DDoS attacks are detected. Eleven months after Amazon and five behind Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.is finally rolling out its own managed container platform to help developers run their microservices projects in the public cloud. It delivers the top-of-the-line experience using M60 GPUs and Nvidia K80 chips, according to Zander. Microsoft uses it for its machine learning operations, he added. It also plans to incorporate graphics processor capabilities into its next-generation virtual machines.
Redmond-based technology major Microsoft on Tuesday launched its public cloud services from local data centres which will aid business and organisations to fuel inclusive growth and spur innovation. Mesos is a great open source solution that is getting a lot of traction. It will be available for preview before the end of 2015.
Azure will get future support for other open source solutions as well.
Microsoft officials also pledged earlier this year to bring container support and cluster management to its Azure Service Fabric, Microsoft’s revamped platform-as-a-service offering. Standard APIs will be generated for the goal.
Chief among the announcements was the availability of Azure IoT Suite.
There is also an Azure IoT Suite certification program for ecosystem partners, including BeagleBone, Freescale Semiconductor, Intel, Raspberry Pi, Resin.io, Seed Technology Inc., and Texas Instruments Inc.
US Government clients of Verizon can gain secure access to the Microsoft Azure Government data centre in Northern Virgina with Chicago being added later in the autumn.
It’s unrealistic to expect Microsoft will supplant all of Azure’s components with open source. With all these services Microsoft has become the first public could provider from India.
That makes provisioning capacity easier and more efficient, benefits that Microsoft is now alone among its peers in offering to container adopters. And, we are trying to further reduce that difference by making the connections directly possible by deploying newer technologies. The Equnix data centres initially offering Azure Government will be in Ashburn and Chicago.
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New Azure ExpressRoute pricing options will be arriving a little later.
