Will Azure Stack appliances become pervasive in datacenters and develop a considerable global footprint in existing hosting facilities?
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 07, 2017
A newly refocused Cloud Solution Provider program is giving partners hope for better relationships with Microsoft field reps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 30, 2017
Microsoft's evolving container approach doesn't necessarily deliver digital nirvana, but it is breaking new ground.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 19, 2017
Think of the first release of the on-premises cloud appliance as a modest version of Microsoft's final goal.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 14, 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 Office may still be the suite to beat in the enterprise productivity race, but a stodgy reputation and competition from upstart firms are putting its lead in peril.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 13, 2017
The company's "Cross-Cloud" initiative aims to create a hybrid operating platform for organizations to run, connect and manage applications distributed among different public clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 19, 2016
Microsoft's announcement of a more restrictive deployment model for Azure Stack, in addition to its delayed release, has left lots of partners scrambling.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 06, 2016
Given Citrix's history with Microsoft and its decision to tap a former Microsoft president as its new CEO, it should come as little surprise the company is borrowing from Microsoft's script.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 09, 2016
The future of computing will involve some combination of public clouds, private clouds or hosting facilities managed by third parties. Whatever the deployment type, there's a role for partners.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 15, 2016
CEO Satya Nadella's $1 billion security initiative yields fruit with the Azure Security Center, powered by the technology behind Azure Machine Learning.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 22, 2016
Redmond's cloud storage frenemies continue to deepen their integration with Microsoft even as they beef up their own services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 14, 2016
Microsoft's new CPS Standard systems will likely test the mood among partners and organizations for turnkey on-premises Azure appliances.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 08, 2015
The burgeoning "ID Management as a Service" market represents an important opportunity for IT solutions providers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 28, 2015
Though EMS is still relatively new, Microsoft is touting the mobility management offering as a major competitor of established solutions from Citrix, IBM and VMware.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 21, 2015
Introduced at Ignite, Azure Stack substantially advances the old Cloud OS Azure Pack by allowing organizations to build cloud infrastructures that truly mirror the experience of the Azure public cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 11, 2015
Perhaps you've heard the buzz about containers and how they're poised to become the next big thing in cloud computing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 20, 2015
From security to storage to identity management, the recent raft of new Azure services gives Microsoft partners multiple ways to meet today's business requirements.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 12, 2015
The first Azure appliance debuted to much fanfare at the 2010 Worldwide Partner Conference, only to fade from the spotlight almost immediately after. Four years later, Microsoft is reviving its earlier plans with the new Cloud Platform System.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 01, 2014
With the debut of Azure Migration Accelerator, Microsoft has fired another volley against cloud leader Amazon Web Services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 16, 2014
Starting with its acquisition of InMage this summer, Microsoft has been taking steps to position Azure as a major provider of disaster recovery services in the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 18, 2014
With cloud computing at the center of recent high-profile security breaches and the NSA spying revelations, providers like Microsoft have been feeling pressure from customers to lock down their data.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 25, 2014
From Azure RemoteApp to ExpressRoute, the new features Microsoft introduced at TechEd give partners new ways to leverage Azure to develop and sell new services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 14, 2014
The Desktop as a Service (DaaS) field is rife with opportunity for partners and tech giants like Amazon Web Services and VMware.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 01, 2014
With Microsoft's aging e-mail server set to lose extended support on April 8, organizations have a host of options -- both on-premises and in the cloud -- to migrate to.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 12, 2014