In a bid to make Internet of Things (IoT) technologies more accessible to novices, Microsoft is readying a new Software as a Service (SaaS) offering dubbed Microsoft IoT Central.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 24, 2017
A surprising percentage of organizations running hybrid cloud environments are unaware of it, according to a recent Microsoft survey.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 21, 2017
As the current cloud field stands, leader Amazon Web Services may be ceding some market share to Azure and Google, but the challengers still have a lot of ground to make up.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 19, 2017
Microsoft this week put the spotlight on some resources for organizations that are looking to take a hybrid approach with their Azure deployments.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 13, 2017
Microsoft's Azure Active Directory Business-to-Business (B2B) service, which is typically used by organizations working with partners or other external parties needing resource access, became generally available on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 13, 2017
Microsoft's Windows Azure Active Directory Sync (DirSync) and Azure AD Sync tools are set to lose support on Thursday, the company warned this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2017
Microsoft on Monday announced that it has acquired Deis, a startup that provides training and tools related to Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration system devised by Google.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2017
Amazon Web Services (AWS) may be the dominant provider in the overall public cloud market, but new research suggests that it faces serious competition from Microsoft Azure in the enterprise space.
- By David Ramel
- April 05, 2017
Microsoft's new Web Application Firewall (WAF) option for its Azure Application Gateway is now out of preview.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 03, 2017
Linux users of OneDrive and OneDrive for Business now have some relief from an earlier issue that bogged down their access to Microsoft's cloud storage service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 24, 2017
Microsoft's partnership with Ping Identity Solutions to create a more streamlined path for organizations seeking single sign-on access to header-based Web applications is bearing fruit.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 23, 2017
Microsoft on Thursday announced a preview of a new Azure Active Directory management option called "Limited Access to SharePoint and OneDrive."
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 10, 2017
Microsoft put the spotlight on its datacenter design effort called Project Olympus, including its partnerships with chip makers, during this week's Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit event.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 09, 2017
The third and final technical preview (TP) of Azure Stack, Microsoft's solution for organizations that want to run the Azure public cloud platform in private datacenters, is now available.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 01, 2017
A pair of Azure Active Directory monitoring capabilities are now out of the preview stage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 28, 2017
As part of a multi-year cloud partnership with Microsoft, Veritas Software on Wednesday announced it is migrating its Enterprise Vault.cloud (EV.cloud ) data archiving service from its own managed datacenters to Microsoft Azure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 22, 2017
Microsoft on Tuesday announced new support for Kubernetes, a Google-fostered open source technology, in its Azure Container Service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 22, 2017
As they each expand their cloud footprints in Europe, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are touting their support for the European Union's newly revamped data privacy regulations.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 17, 2017
Microsoft this week announced the addition of datacenter and networking giant Cisco to its list of approved hardware partners for the upcoming Azure Stack solution.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 10, 2017
Microsoft is readying a new console for its Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) service that aims to simplify tasks related to identity management and mobile device management (MDM).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 10, 2017