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
Azure Digital Twins, a new Microsoft platform for representing buildings and outdoor spaces, is now in the public preview stage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 16, 2018
Microsoft this week expanded access to its Azure confidential computing solution, which is now in public preview after a year of being at the more limited "Early Access" stage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 12, 2018
After nearly a year in preview, Azure Data Box, Microsoft's heavy-duty cloud data transfer appliance, became generally available on Monday during the company's 2018 Ignite conference.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- September 24, 2018
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding its partner competencies to recognize partners focusing on cloud management tools.
- By David Ramel
- September 17, 2018
Microsoft this week released its report on what went wrong with its cloud on Sept. 4, when a lightning strike at its U.S. South Central datacenter region caused a widespread service outage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 11, 2018
Various Office 365 and Azure cloud services went down this week after a Sept. 4 lightning strike temporarily disabled Microsoft's datacenters in the South Central U.S. region.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 04, 2018
Microsoft on Tuesday described the host of artificial intelligence (AI) features that it plans to add to SharePoint Online and OneDrive by year's end.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 29, 2018
For the first time, Microsoft is allowing users with non-Microsoft IDs to use its Azure Active Directory Business to Business (B2B) service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 29, 2018
Microsoft recently shared its plans for an upcoming release of BizTalk Server, its enterprise integration solution for "on-premises" installations that's used to connect business applications and services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 14, 2018