Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies announce partnership using AI to decode immune system; diagnose, treat disease

The human immune system is an astonishing diagnostic system, continuously adapting itself to detect any signal of disease in the body. Essentially, the state of the immune system tells a story about virtually everything affecting a person’s health. It may sound like science fiction, but what if we could “read” this story? Our scientific understanding…

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Mitigating speculative execution side-channel attacks in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer

Today, Google Project Zero published details of a class of vulnerabilities which can be exploited by speculative execution side-channel attacks. These techniques can be used via JavaScript code running in the browser, which may allow attackers to gain access to memory in the attacker’s process. Microsoft has issued security updates (KB4056890) with mitigations for this […] Continue reading Mitigating speculative execution side-channel attacks in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer

Azure Analysis Services Scale Out & Diagnostics | Azure Friday

Christian Wade stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about how to use Azure Analysis Services diagnostic logging and query scale out. These features provide high scalability and monitoring for IT-owned "corporate BI" and are much easier to se… Continue reading Azure Analysis Services Scale Out & Diagnostics | Azure Friday

Microsoft to acquire Avere Systems, accelerating high-performance computing innovation for media and entertainment industry and beyond

Over the years, Microsoft has made a number of investments to provide our customers with the most flexible, secure and scalable storage solutions in the marketplace. Today, I am pleased to share that Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Avere Systems, a leading provider of high-performance NFS and SMB file-based storage for Linux and Windows clients running in cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments.

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