Microsoft’s platform-based approach to cloud development has allowed it to offer managed versions of many familiar elements of the tech stack, especially within its data platform. As well as its own ...

Open the Planetary Computer data catalog and you will find all kinds of useful data: from decades’ worth of satellite imagery to biomass maps, from the US Census to fire data. All together, there are ...

Large chunks of public cloud storage are built around object storage. Block and file are dominant in the datacentre, but in the cloud, where the need is for large amounts of relatively cheap storage ...

It could be argued that the contemporary world of the web is built on application programming interfaces (APIs) – or, more specifically, web APIs that allow a web application to access services and ...

Storage is a finite IT asset, and organizations can’t get enough of it. Businesses are consuming more storage every day, and it’s up to IT to keep up. Rather than consistently add expensive new ...

Microsoft is expanding functionality for agentic AI into its Azure AI Foundry platform, furthering one of the hottest areas of development right now. The company this week announced two new features, ...

EU privacy watchdog the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has started examining whether the bloc's top institutions and agencies are effectively protecting citizens' personal data when using ...