Category Archives: Cloud Computing

The Dirty Truth About IT Offboarding Automation

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Every system administrator dreams of building the perfect Rube Goldberg machine of IT automation to manage the employee IT lifecycle, end to end, including IT offboarding. A new hire joins the company, HR files a ticket, and BAM! In an instant, all of the birthright accounts, access, and permissions are granted in a glorious cascade…

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Splunk Announces New Partnership with Microsoft to Boost Digital Resilience

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Splunk Inc. announced this week a new strategic partnership with Microsoft. The new deal will enable both companies to build Splunk’s enterprise security and observability solutions on Microsoft Azure. Splunk is a popular platform that enables customers to search, analyze, and visualize machine-generated data in real-time. It collects and processes data coming from a wide…

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Microsoft Expands Free Access to Cloud Security Logs Following Exchange Hacks

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Microsoft announced yesterday that it will provide organizations access to expanded cloud logging data at no additional cost to prevent potential cyberattacks. The announcement comes in response to criticism the company faced regarding the lack of security logs for select cloud licenses. Last week, Microsoft confirmed a series of attacks from a Chinese hacking group…

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Microsoft to Distribute Llama 2, Meta’s Open-Source Alternative to OpenAI LLM Models

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Microsoft announced at its Inspire conference yesterday that it’s expanding its AI partnership with Meta to accelerate innovation in that field. Microsoft will be Meta’s preferred partner to distribute Llama 2, the company’s next-gen and open-source large language model (LLM) designed for commercial use.  Over the past couple of months, the AI conversation has mostly…

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Microsoft Dev Box Goes Out of Preview

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Microsoft launched its Dev Box cloud-powered workstations in public preview back in August 2022. The company announced yesterday that it has decided to make the service generally available following successful testing in multiple organizations. Microsoft first teased Dev Box at its Build developer conference last year. The new offering provides secure access to pre-configured developer…

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Cloud security: Sometimes the risks may outweigh the rewards

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Threat actors are well-aware of the vulnerability of our cloud infrastructure. The internet we have today is not equipped to serve the data needs of the future. When data is stored in the cloud, it can end up across several servers anywhere in the worl… Continue reading Cloud security: Sometimes the risks may outweigh the rewards→

Cloud Workload Protection Platforms: An Essential Shield

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Businesses of all sizes increasingly rely on cloud computing to power their operations. This shift has brought with it a new set of security challenges. To protect their workloads in the cloud, many of these businesses are deploying a critical tool for cloud security: cloud workload protection platforms (CWPPs). What are Cloud Workload Protection Platforms? […]

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Lenovo extends its portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure

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Lenovo is doubling down on artificial intelligence with new innovative solutions and infrastructure. Get details about the new AI-enhanced Lenovo portfolio.
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Google Takes on Microsoft with New Antitrust Complaint Over Cloud Practices

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Google has officially filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), according to a report from The Information. The company claimed that Microsoft abused its dominant position in the enterprise software market to push more customers toward its cloud services. In a letter to the FTC, Google explained that Microsoft used…

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