Microsoft on Wednesday launched a new program called "Microsoft Azure IP Advantage" that aims to protect organizations using Azure services against against intellectual property (IP) claims.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 08, 2017
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still the runaway leader of the public cloud market, recent gains by other vendors aside, according to a pair of recent studies.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 07, 2017
This week marked the rollout of several new Azure Active Directory (AD) capabilities designed to increase security and collaboration.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 02, 2017
Commercial Office 365 subscribers can now begin to access new OneDrive for Business improvements, including file synchronization and management enhancements, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 25, 2017
LANDesk and Heat Software have merged into a company called Ivanti that aims to provide a broad suite of cloud-based IT service management (ITSM) solutions focused on endpoint configuration, security and reporting.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 24, 2017
Organizations using Microsoft's Power BI service are now able to take advantage of enhanced Azure Active Directory reporting features.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 23, 2017
Microsoft has rolled out another benefit for organizations participating in its pay-as-you-go Windows 10 program: free upgrades to Windows 10 for older PCs.
- By Gladys Rama
- January 19, 2017
Starting next month, Microsoft will direct first-time buyers of its Azure services to Microsoft partners enrolled in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 11, 2017
A new "OneDrive Admin Center" Web portal, designed for IT pros who manage OneDrive for Business cloud-based storage and sharing implementations, is now available in preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 19, 2016
For years, Microsoft has been steadily bridging the gap between Azure and Windows Server. With the two products more tightly integrated than ever, partners with hybrid and private cloud expertise are poised to reap the benefits.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 14, 2016
Docker for Azure is now available for public testing, Docker announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 13, 2016
The results are in for the first-ever Redmond Channel Partner magazine Reader's Choice awards.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- December 12, 2016
Microsoft is readying a number of enhancements to its Azure portal, including a preview of administrator controls for Intune, Microsoft's mobile management service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 12, 2016
Despite competing against Microsoft in cloud-based enterprise file sharing and collaboration, Box is strengthening its integration with Office 365.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 05, 2016
At last week's re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services (AWS) executives threw down the gauntlet at Microsoft, Oracle and others that are looking to challenge its cloud dominance.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 05, 2016
Cloud leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a few updates to its partner program on Tuesday that benefit partners that have developed specialized technical practices and focus areas.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 29, 2016
Azure Data Lake, Microsoft's service for "Big Data" massively parallel types of analyses, is now production-ready, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 18, 2016
Microsoft took its ongoing courtship of open source a step further on Wednesday, announcing that it has joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2016
Microsoft on Tuesday took steps toward its goal to "democratize" artificial intelligence, partnering with nonprofit research organization OpenAI and announcing several Azure milestones aimed at helping developers tap into the platform's new compute capabilities.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2016
Microsoft's Windows Azure Pack solution is "far from being dead," Microsoft said this week after updating the product's lifecycle support information.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2016