Organizations narrowly favor Microsoft Azure over rivals Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform for its "compatibility with existing services."
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 27, 2019
The Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage service has a few new enhancements coming to it, including more storage options and a secure "Personal Vault" feature.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 26, 2019
The database management system (DBMS) market's growth is increasingly being driven by cloud services, not by more traditional on-premises systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2019
Microsoft's Azure Backup service can now support SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 24, 2019
With a new service preview, Microsoft is now letting organizations use a private Internet connection to access Azure virtual machines.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 19, 2019
A recent update to Office 365's Office Customization Tool will let organizations save their configuration files in Microsoft's cloud datacenters to access later.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 06, 2019
Sometime rivals Microsoft and Oracle are expanding their partnership to deliver "cross-cloud" capabilities for larger organizations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 05, 2019
After a lengthy development process, Microsoft and Red Hat this week announced the general availability of their Azure Red Hat OpenShift service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 09, 2019
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella kicked off the 2019 Build conference on Monday by describing his company's four distinct platform opportunities for development.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 07, 2019
Ahead of its 2019 Build developer conference, Microsoft on Thursday detailed major improvements coming to its Azure cloud platform.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 02, 2019
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