Microsoft’s Azure cloud adds G-Series virtual machines & a key management tool
January 8, 2015
Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Jordan Novet.
Microsoft is moving right along in its efforts to maintain a leading position in the public cloud market. Today the company is announcing a public preview for a new service for storing cryptographic keys in the Azure cloud — and it’s rolling out the G-Series of virtual machines for running applications.
New virtual machines, each of which is a sliver of a physical server in a Microsoft data center, are par for the course in the highly competitive cloud business, where it’s only natural for computing power to increase over time. The new Key Vault service, for its part, could be interpreted as Microsoft’s answer to the Key Management Service, which cloud market leader Amazon Web Services announced last year to manage keys, and Amazon’s older CloudHSM service, which provides dedicated gear called hardware security modules (HSMs) for key storage…
Microsoft’s Key Vault lets people store and manage keys on HSMs in Microsoft data centers. “We offer a full hardware-protected, FIPS-certified, high-security solution, but one that scales, and one that’s easy to use and simple to program, too,” said Corey Sanders, partner director of program management for Azure at Microsoft, in an interview with VentureBeat…
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