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Microsoft Azure DNS and Men&Mice Making More Sparks Together

Our mutual collaboration enhances the value of the open and adaptable Men&Mice Suite to our customers.

Sep 29th, 2016

Chemistry. Sometimes, when two separate entities meet, they just have it. Sometimes they don’t. When it comes to Men&Mice and Microsoft, it’s definitely a case of the former. There’s surefire chemistry, and, even though the relationship already dates back to way back when, we’ve never been stronger together than we are now.

Just this week, Microsoft Azure announced General Availability of their domain hosting service, Azure DNS, in a joint statement with Men&Mice, released on September 26th at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Atlanta, USA. The General Availability announcement comes slightly more than a year after Microsoft first unveiled the public preview of this new addition to their cloud network offerings at Microsoft Ignite in Chicago in 2015. Men&Mice had already announced support for Microsoft Azure DNS in January of this year, with the release of the Men&Mice Suite Version 7.1. Now everyone is able to pick the fully ripe fruits of this productive partnership.

According to Jonathan Tuliani, Program Manager for Azure Networking – DNS and Traffic Manager, with this announcement Azure DNS is now ready to be used for production workloads. Given that Azure DNS “is supported via Azure Support and is backed by a 99.99% availability SLA” this means that Men&Mice Suite customers can now sit back and enjoy the high availability, performance, low cost and convenience of hosting their domains in the cloud with Azure DNS, while maintaining full control of their DNS domains and IP address blocks with the help of the powerful DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management (DDI) tools provided by the Men&Mice Suite.

Magnus E. Bjornsson, CEO of Men&Mice, sees this as one more positive step towards the continued development of third-party support products in close cooperation with Microsoft. “We are proud partners of Microsoft and embrace the opportunity to join forces with this leader in the field of IT. Our mutual collaboration enhances the value of the open and adaptable Men&Mice Suite to our customers.”

The Men&Mice Suite already exhibits a core, unfettered synergy with Microsoft Active Directory, which helps to make it one of the world’s top choice suppliers of DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management software solutions. With the addition of support for Azure DNS, as well as support for Windows Server 2016, there’s no telling where this juicing up of existing chemistry will take us next. If the past is anything to go by, it’s bound to be a happy combination of small steps and giant leaps towards collaborative, innovative creation.

The full General Availability announcement can be accessed on the Microsoft Azure blog.