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As a cornerstone of the strategy, SES signed a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to be an Azure Orbital partner as well as to accelerate and expand the use of Microsoft Azure across its operations and jointly develop cloud-based video and data connectivity managed services. As an Azure Orbital partner, SES will be co-locating and managing O3b mPOWER gateways with Microsoft Azure locations so its customers are always only "One-hop" away from their Azure cloud services anywhere in the world.

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of Project OneFuzz, an open source fuzzing framework for Azure that the tech giant has been using internally for the past year to find and patch bugs. Project OneFuzz, which Microsoft describes as an extensible fuzz testing framework, is designed to address some of the challenges typically associated with fuzzing, enabling developers to conduct this type of testing themselves and allowing security engineers to focus on other important tasks.

Data Intensity announced the launch of Safe-Switch, a life-cycle approach to migrating and managing Oracle applications and database platforms on Microsoft Azure. In response to the Oracle and Microsoft Cloud Interoperability Partnership announcement, Safe-Switch was created to help customers accelerate their consumption of heterogenous cloud adoption, with freedom of choice and seamless integration for Oracle and Microsoft workloads.

Microsoft this week announced the public preview of new functionality to automatically deliver security patches to Windows virtual machines in Azure. Called automatic VM guest patching, the feature is meant to improve the update management of Windows VMs to ensure security compliance through the automatic delivery of necessary patches.

Buurst announced the availability of its flagship product, SoftNAS, in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Buurst customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.

Details tied to a pair of remote code execution bugs in Microsoft's IoT security platform called Azure Sphere were released Monday. Public disclosure of all four of the bugs piggyback on six vulnerabilities found in July also impacting Microsoft's Azure Sphere.

Recently addressed Microsoft Azure Sphere vulnerabilities could lead to the execution of arbitrary code or to elevation of privileges, Cisco Talos' researchers warn. The cloud-based system on a chip platform was designed for Internet of Things security, and is comprised of a hardware platform, Azure Sphere OS, and the Azure Sphere Security Service.

Tech Data announced that it has expanded its Cloud Solution Factory offering with the addition of a new Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure Click-to-Run Solution, which increases remote workforce productivity while ensuring data and applications can be securely accessed from any location using any device. "As a leader in cloud and next-generation solution aggregation, Tech Data makes cloud adoption simple by significantly reducing cloud configuration and deployment processes so that our channel partners can serve their customers more effectively and with fewer risks."

NetApp announced the availability of Azure NetApp Files in the government region data centers on Microsoft Azure. This expansion of Azure NetApp Files, one of the only Azure native, high-performance file storage services, offers the TCO, performance, management, and confidence demanded by critical applications for federal, Department of Defense, and state and local agencies that have strict government security and regulatory compliance requirements.

With this announcement, InfluxDB Cloud is now live on all three major cloud platforms - Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. InfluxDB Cloud now available on all major cloud platforms.