Whether you're a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you're spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management and Billing comes in. We're always […]
Secrets to Hiring Top Tech Talent
To hire best-in-class IT talent, your company must have interesting technical problems to solve.
Simplify Cloud Deployment Through Teamwork, Strategy
As an overarching best practice, align anything and everything you propose, design, or deploy for cloud around how it benefits the company’s critical applications and the business.
Enhance your classroom experience with Azure Lab Services—April 2022 update
Azure Lab Services offers classroom labs for higher education, K-12 institutions, and commercial organizations that don't want to use the on-premises hardware but rather want to harness the power of the cloud to host labs for students or users. We are excited to announce major updates to Azure Lab Services including enhanced lab creation and […]
Quick Study: Sustainability and ESG
How to effectively handle environmental, social and governance issues for the long haul is a significant concern in IT today. Here are recent articles that highlight the trends.
New York Fintech Week: Startups Take Aim at Financial Inclusion
Demo day hosted by FinTech Sandbox revisited the need for greater diversity among financial industry leaders and the focus of regulators on transparency.
Estimating the Total Costs of Your Cloud Analytics Platform
Addressing modern real-world use cases requires the application of multiple functions working together on the data. Here are some things to know to cost out the stack effectively.
10 cybersecurity tips for business travelers
Microsoft announces new collaboration with Red Button for attack simulation testing
As we highlighted in our latest attack trends report, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are one of the biggest security concerns today. Whether in the cloud or on-premises, DDoS attacks can be targeted at any endpoint that is publicly reachable through the internet. Planning and preparing for a DDoS attack is crucial to a well-vetted incident […]
How Microsoft measures datacenter water and energy use to improve Azure Cloud sustainability
One of the biggest topics of discussion at COP26, the global climate conference held in November 2021, was how a lack of reliable and consistent measurement hampers progress on the path to Net Zero. I have been reflecting on this issue and, on this Earth Day, I would like to provide an update on how […]