Announcing Power BI Embedded Generation 2 public preview

By Dustin Ward

We are announcing the second generation of Power BI Embedded, referred to as Embedded Gen 2, is available for its Azure subscribers to use during the public preview period. All of the Power BI Embedded Gen 1 capabilities such as pausing and resuming the capacity, are preserved in Gen 2 and the price per SKU…

Azure Defender for App Service introduces dangling DNS protection

By Dustin Ward

Resources hosted on Azure App Service are at the forefront as attackers are constantly on the lookout for vulnerabilities in web applications. Dormant domains are a permanent resident on the checklist of both opportunistic and target-oriented attackers. To reduce potential attack surface, Azure App Service enforces domain verification when binding custom domain to an App…

Icertis boosts performance over 80 percent and lowers costs on Azure SQL

By Dustin Ward

As customers grow their mission critical workloads, scaling up to manage spiky workloads in house can become an expensive proposition. Icertis, a leading provider of contract lifecycle management in the cloud, had one such workload managing over 7.5 million contracts spanning over a trillion dollars. The Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) platform is hosted entirely on…