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NetApp and Broadcom maximise the value of customers’ private and hybrid cloud environments

A suspected Russian intrusion into Microsoft's corporate systems, which was disclosed in January, also affected US federal government systems, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

The world's largest software repository, GitHub, has introduced new updates for GitHub Actions, bringing stronger security and increased power to GitHub-hosted runners. These include Azure private networking, GPU-hosted runners for machine learning, and more. The new features bring a huge boost for enterprise customers.

Microsoft has been mauled over "a cascade of security failures" that led to a breach of the company's Azure cloud platform by a group known as Storm-0558, with the US Cyber Safety Review Board concluding that the intrusion "should never have happened".

GUEST OPINION:  In an increasingly competitive commercial environment, organisations of all sizes are under growing pressure to innovate.

GUEST OPINION: With the use of phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) like passkeys growing more every day, it’s exciting to see the widely popular service, Microsoft 365, announce availability recently for passkeys on YubiKeys with mobile devices. This new Microsoft preview not only opens up support on iOS and iPadOS for Microsoft 365, but for a whole range of other Microsoft 1st party apps and also any other applications protected with Entra ID.

Attackers claimed to be backed by Russia were inside Microsoft's corporate systems for nearly two months before the company detected their presence, it says in a blog post published on Friday.

Processor manufacturer AMD says AI is the most transformational technology in 50 years, and that the biggest driver of this has been generative AI. However, the amazing things AI can achieve are constrained by the availability and capability of GPUs - so, to accelerate AI, AMD has today announced its brand new AMD Instinct MI300X accelerator, bringing the highest performance in the world for generative AI.

COMPANY NEWS: 11:11 Systems (“11:11”), a managed infrastructure solutions provider, was named an Aspiring provider in the 2023 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) report.

GUEST OPINION  It may be time to migrate file shares to SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams, and security is a major reason.

Cloud computing is the new normal for many enterprises. Yet, there are companies still to embrace the cloud, and there are companies who have lifted and shifted but aren't seeing the benefits of power or cost they expected. Here's my take on cloud migration.

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GUEST OPINION: Over 90% of attackers are using the same tactic to cover their tracks that security teams use to protect their data, and broadly speaking, no-one is watching.

AI researchers at Microsoft accidentally exposed 38TB of private data while in the process of sending live a bucket containing open-source training data, the cloud security company Wiz.io claims.

Microsoft and Oracle expand their partnership to provide Oracle Database@Azure, providing direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, deployed in Microsoft Azure data centres.

In what can only be described as poor-quality spin, the US Government"s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has made much of the fact that former hacker Mudge will be joining the agency in a part-time capacity. [The word hacker is used here in its original meaning: someone who plays around with code.]

Cloud security company Wiz.io says there are many unanswered questions raised by Microsoft's final report into a breach of its Azure cloud platform, pointing out that the threat actor, given the name Storm-0558, may have been forging authentication tokens for more than two years given the timeline in the report.

Nearly three months after its Azure cloud was breached, Microsoft says the "probable" cause was the cracking of a staff engineer's corporate account.

The relationship between SAS and Microsoft is now in its third year, and is the “best partnership we’ve experienced,” says SAS EVP and CIO Jay Upchurch. “And not just about the technology.”

Rackspace Technology is one of a very few global multicloud providers, president of public cloud business unit D.K. Sinha told iTWire, even though most organisations want a multicloud environment so that regulated or data-intensive applications can be deployed in private cloud while others are suitable for running in a public cloud.