Eight ways to optimize costs and maximize value with Microsoft Azure infrastructure
Eight ways in which Azure infrastructure can help you improve cash flow, achieve cost savings, increase operational efficiencies, and unify security and management.
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Advancing Microsoft Teams on Azure—operating at pandemic scale
Scale, resiliency, and performance do not happen overnight—it takes sustained and deliberate investment, day over day, and a performance-first mindset to build products that delight our users.
Six reasons customers trust Azure to run their SAP solutions
As global organizations across every industry adjust to the new normal, SAP solutions are playing an increasingly vital role in addressing immediate needs and paving a path to a resilient future.
Azure Firewall forced tunneling and SQL FQDN filtering now generally available
To two new key features in Azure Firewall, forced tunneling and SQL, FQDN filtering, are now generally available. Additionally, we increased the limit for multiple public IP addresses from 100 to 250 for both Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) and Source Network Address Translation (SNAT).
Announcing Azure Front Door Rules Engine in preview
Starting today, customers of Azure Front Door (AFD) can take advantage of new rules to further customize their AFD behavior to best meet the needs of their customers.
Monitor your Azure workload compliance with Azure Security Benchmark
The Azure Security Benchmark v1 was released in January 2020 and is being used by organizations to manage their security and compliance policies for their Azure workloads.
Use Azure Firewall for secure and cost-effective Windows Virtual Desktop protection
Work from home policies require many IT organizations to address fundamental changes in capacity, network, security, and governance.
How Azure VPN helps organizations scale remote work
A shift to remote work is one of the widespread effects of the global pandemic, and we heard from organizations around the world who are looking for ways to enable more of their employees to work remotely for their safety and that of the community.
Accelerating Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) compliance on Azure
Expanding compliance coverage to meet CMMC requirements, announcing a new CMMC acceleration program for DIB companies serving the DoD.
Azure Security Center enhancements
As the world comes together to combat COVID-19, and remote work becomes a critical capability for many companies, it’s extremely important to maintain the security posture of your cloud assets while enabling more remote workers to access them.
Detect large-scale cryptocurrency mining attack against Kubernetes clusters
Azure Security Center’s threat protection enables you to detect and prevent threats across a wide variety of services from Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) layer to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)…
Announcing server-side encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Managed Disks
Today, we are announcing the general availability for server-side encryption (SSE) with customer-managed keys (CMK) for Azure Managed Disks. Azure customers have benefited from server-side encryption with platform-managed keys for Managed Disks enabled by default.