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Securing Azure Blob Storage

Azure Blob Storage is a versatile, scalable, and cost-effective cloud storage service provided by Microsoft. It is designed to store a wide range of data types, including unstructured data such as images, videos, audio files, and documents. As businesses increasingly rely on cloud storage for critical data, ensuring the security of Azure Blob Storage becomes a top priority.

Building Bitbucket Cloud for enhanced security, compliance, and scale

With support for Bitbucket Server ending in February 2024, we're seeing more and more of our enterprise customers moving their code to the cloud. To enable a smooth migration to cloud for our Bitbucket Server and Data Center customers and to enable our existing cloud customers to scale, we are continuing to build features around security, compliance, and scale in Bitbucket Cloud.

Ubuntu compliance monitoring with Microsoft Intune

In recent years, data science, AI and software development have become a key focus area for organisations operating in every sector of the economy. This creates a pressing need to adopt Linux desktops in the enterprise, as research clearly shows a growing number of data scientists and developers prefer operating systems like Ubuntu.

Tutorial | Microsoft Intune for Ubuntu

Microsoft has recently released Intune for Linux with Ubuntu as the first target platform. As a mobile device management (MDM) software, Intune on Ubuntu monitors the endpoint compliance status and uses this information to make access decisions for resources protected by Azure Active Directory. In this video, Canonical Product Manager Massimiliano Gori gives us a brief introduction and walks us through Microsoft Intune on Ubuntu.

Azure Unmanaged Disks Soon Deprecated

Microsoft announced in September 2022 that they will be deprecating Azure Unmanaged Disks on September 30, 2025. This means that customers will no longer be able to create or use unmanaged disks after this date. Unmanaged disks are a type of storage that is not managed by Microsoft. This means that customers are responsible for managing all aspects of the disk, including provisioning, backups, and security. Managed disks, on the other hand, are a type of storage that is managed by Microsoft.

MetricFire - Dashboards Tutorial

In this video, we explore MetricFire’s powerful dashboarding platform. Discover how to customize your dashboard to view the metrics that matter most to your business. With a variety of visualization options and an intuitive interface, creating and editing charts, tables, and graphs has never been easier. Share your dashboard with your team and keep everyone on the same page. Join MetricFire and start tracking your business metrics today.

Chaos Engineering Tools: Myth vs Fact

With so many Chaos Engineering tools available, it’s no surprise that SRE and platform leaders are doing their homework when choosing a platform to help them build and scale their Chaos Engineering programs. But like anything else you can research on the internet, there’s a lot of noise and hype that you need to wade through. Gremlin works with Reliability Engineering teams at hundreds of companies with the most sensitive workloads—and has since 2016.

MSP Automation: Transform & Scale your MSP Business

MSP Automation was the main focus of our recent webinar, which covered how Managed Service Providers can transform the scalability of their businesses by removing the headaches of manual request processing. The webinar was widely attended by enterprise IT staff too , particularly those with an ethos of delivering an experience (rather than a service level). The same principles apply, so here’s an overview of what was covered during the session.