Microsoft cloud customers with government and "pay-as-you-go" subscriptions can now take advantage of the new Azure Cost Management feature, which became generally available this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 23, 2019
Organizations running Windows and other Microsoft applications can now take advantage of improved integrations with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2019
Azure Data Box Edge and Azure Data Box Gateway are now generally available, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 27, 2019
A new addition to Microsoft's Azure Stack product line brings hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) capabilities to its "Azure in a box" solution, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 26, 2019
Microsoft's Azure Backup for SQL Server solution, which is used to backup SQL Server when the relational database management system is housed on Azure datacenter virtual machines, became generally available this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 19, 2019
Microsoft described a new mechanism this week called "Guardian Modules" that enables the use of microcontroller units to secure connections for older Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 06, 2019
Azure DevOps Server 2019, Microsoft's rebranded successor to Team Foundation Server 2018, became generally available on Tuesday after being at the Release Candidate 2 test stage since January.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 05, 2019
Starting as early as next month, Microsoft plans to change Office 365's default document-saving behavior to OneDrive and OneDrive for Business folder locations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 30, 2019
A new feature in Microsoft's Azure Active Directory Business to Business (B2B) service enables organizations to grant outside partners access to their internal network resources.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 29, 2019
Microsoft's Azure DevOps Server 2019 product, which succeeds Team Foundation Server 2018, is now available as Release Candidate 2 (RC2).
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 23, 2019
Revenues from IT infrastructure products sold to cloud service providers have surpassed revenues from traditional IT infrastructure sales "for the first time," according to a recently published report by IDC.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 22, 2019
Microsoft's new approach for getting organizations to purchase Azure services appears to put its partners at a disadvantage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 15, 2019
Microsoft's Azure Container Service (ACS), which commercially launched more than two years ago, will fall out of support on Jan. 31, 2020, according to a Microsoft post earlier this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 14, 2018
To help organizations that build and maintain distributed applications, Microsoft and Docker this week launched a new specification called Cloud Native Application Bundles (CNAB).
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 05, 2018
Microsoft's new "account manager" multiple sign-in capability will be available across various Microsoft online services sometime next year, the company said this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 28, 2018
Microsoft recently put the spotlight on several of its partners that are at the forefront of the "smart cities" movement through their use of Azure's Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2018
A raft of improvements are coming to Microsoft's database products, including migration support to Azure SQL Database, Apache Kafka Support on Azure Event Hubs, Azure SQL Data Warehouse improvements and yet another preview of the coming SQL Server 2019 product.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2018
Organizations can now license Azure Active Directory by group, Microsoft announced Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 02, 2018
A Microsoft expert questioned the use of "third-party" multicloud management tools over cloud-native solutions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 29, 2018
Microsoft is bringing a few notable enhancements to its Azure cloud, according to announcements this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 25, 2018