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
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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