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As always, security was at the forefront for Microsoft Corp. today at Ignite 2022, with its extensive range of product updates coming alongside multiple new capabilities aimed at helping companies to provide better safeguards for their data and applications. The main focus …
Microsoft’s Edge browser gains shared tabs and more security features
Google Chrome remains far and away the most dominant web browser in use today, but that hasn’t stopped Microsoft Corp. from doing everything possible to persuade more people to try its Edge browser instead. In fact, Microsoft continues to add new features …
Microsoft adds OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 image generation tool to Azure Cognitive Services
Microsoft Corp. is pushing to become a more important player in artificial intelligence development, leveraging its partnerships and expertise to offer customers tools for building more advanced models. One of the most impressive new offerings comes from Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Falling …
Microsoft to offer premium Teams features with more personalization and intelligent feedback
Microsoft Corp. is betting that enterprise users will be willing to pay extra to enjoy a more personalized, intelligent and secure experience within its Teams collaboration software suite. The new Microsoft Teams Premium add-on will provide greater benefits and functionality for webinars, …
Microsoft boosts Azure’s big-data cred with flurry of database-related enhancements
Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud is getting boosted with an array of data-focused updates, with expanded capabilities for its Intelligent Data Platform and new functions in its main database offerings leading the way. One of the most important new announcements at Microsoft Ignite …
Dell launches operations software platform Project Frontier to scale up edge computing
Dell Technologies Inc. today announced a new initiative called Project Frontier aimed at helping enterprises get a better grip on their edge computing deployments. Due to launch next year, Frontier is a software operations platform that’s intended to help enterprises securely manage and …
Oracle revamps VirtualBox virtualization software with cloud integration and 3D app support
Oracle Corp. is rolling out a major update to its free open-source virtualization platform, Oracle VM VirtualBox. Announced today, Oracle VM VirtualBox 7 is a cross-platform application that enables users to create, manage and run multiple virtual machines. VMs, as they’re known, …
Google Cloud expands its confidential computing portfolio to shared workloads as it expands trusted cloud ecosystem
Cloud security is at the forefront of Google Cloud’s innovation at Cloud Next 2022 today, as the company announced a further push into the area of confidential computing while also expanding its “trusted cloud” ecosystem and launching a new initiative around digital sovereignty. …
Google touts open data cloud to unify information from every source
Google Cloud has ambitions to build what it says will be the most open, extensible and powerful data cloud of all, as part of its mission to ensure customers can make use of all of their data, from any source, no matter …
Google beefs up cloud infrastructure with new VMs, mainframe modernization and software security offerings
Google Cloud today introduced multiple innovations across its portfolio of cloud services, including a new virtual machine and block storage offerings, mainframe modernization service and application security tools. They were announced alongside the opening of yet more cloud regions, a new open-source …