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For the kick-off of its annual Tech Ed user conference, being held this week in Houston, Microsoft has released a bevy of tools and services to help administrators connect their internal operations to Microsoft’s Azure cloud.

Microsoft addresses the fears of the post-Snowden world with its latest Azure update, announced at TechEd 2014.

Today is a big day for Microsoft. It’s making a large number of announcements around its developer tools at its enterprise-centric TechEd event in Houston today and in addition, it is also bringing a number of new features to its Azure cloud computing services.

At TechEd in Houston today, Microsoft announced a wide range of updates to its Azure cloud platform. As has become customary for Azure updates, the new features announced today include a mix of previews of brand-new capabilities, and general availability releases of features previously only in preview.

Microsoft officially flips the switch on its business-friendly, high-performance hybrid cloud connection service and introduces new Azure-powered file, security and disaster recovery solutions.

At its annual Tech Ed conference, Microsoft has released a range of hybrid cloud administration tools and services

The resignation of Target Corp. CEO Gregg Steinhafel earlier this week indicates a growing awareness among the C-suite and boards that security is intimately intertwined with business strategy and should be viewed as a board-level issue.

Testing real-world effectiveness of antivirus products is really, really tough. Ideally, you'd measure the way they handle in-the-wild malicious websites and applications when encountered exactly the way a user would. Of course, in order to score the test you'd need the ability to identify every malicious object, even zero-day attacks.

Chief executive and president Gregg Steinhafel has left the company after 35 years, including giving up his seat as chairman of the company's board of directors. Steinhafel had overseen the company as CEO since 2008 and as president since 2009. His departure follows that of CIO Beth Jacobs, who was just replaced by Homeland Security veteran Bob DeRodes.

Sitting in a room with the leaders of the country's largest retailers would look decidedly different today than it did two years ago as CEO shakeups have rocked the industry.