
The next wave of multicloud security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
With digital transformation in the face of macroeconomic pressures, strategies to optimize both cloud environments and cloud security are increasingly appealing to enterprises. Organizations worry about vulnerabilities in code getting deployed, critical misconfigurations, overprivileged access to cloud infrastructure, and evolving ... continue reading
Decision Flow to Estimate Pod Spread on AKS
Introduction In Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), the concept of pod spread is important to ensure that pods are distributed efficiently across nodes in a cluster. This helps to optimize resource utilization, increase application performance, and maintain high availability. This ... continue reading
Field tips for AKS storage provisioning
Introduction In an Azure Kubernetes (AKS) cluster, Pods can access physical storage resources such as disks or volumes using Persistent Volumes (PV). To use these resources, Pods need to make a Persistent Volume Claim (PVC), which requests a specific amount ... continue reading

Monitor Azure Virtual Network Manager changes with event logging
Today, our customers establish and manage their Azure virtual networks at scale. As their number of network resources grows, the question of how to maintain connectivity and security among their scale of resources arises. This is where Microsoft Azure Virtual ... continue reading

Exploring open-source capabilities in Azure AI
This post was co-authored by Richard Tso, Director of Product Marketing, Azure AI Open-source technologies have had a profound impact on the world of AI and machine learning, enabling developers, data scientists, and organizations to collaborate, innovate, and build better ... continue reading

New research, tooling, and partnerships for more secure AI and machine learning
Today we’re on the verge of a monumental shift in the technology landscape that will forever change the security community. AI and machine learning may embody the most consequential technology advances of our lifetime, bringing huge opportunities to build, discover, ... continue reading

Azure Managed Lustre—Parallel file system for HPC and AI workloads
Today, Microsoft is announcing the public preview of Azure Managed Lustre, a new addition to the storage offerings in our Azure HPC + AI solution. Lustre is an open-source parallel file system renowned for high-performance computing (HPC) and is adept ... continue reading
Reporting on Storage Account Access Tier Statistics
I have a customer with some very large storage accounts – of course as the size of an account gets larger so does the cost. Customers can use Blob Lifecycle Management rules to control when blobs are moved to a ... continue reading
Accessing Microsoft Graph Data with Powershell
Hi Mike Resnick here, as Azure AD Graph and Azure AD powershell modules heading for a well deserved retirement, I’m fielding a lot of similar “How to “questions around Azure based process automation and Microsoft Graph. Based on these conversations ... continue reading

Azure Native New Relic Service: Full stack observability in minutes
Digital transformation across organizations has led to workloads shifting to multicloud and hybrid-cloud environments. Modern organizations are increasingly adopting cloud-native technologies including containers, microservices, serverless, and more. With the growing complexity of distributed applications deployed on a cloud-native landscape, can ... continue reading