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
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the dominant cloud provider in the global market for years, with Microsoft Azure a very distant runner-up. However, a recent report suggests Microsoft, while still No. 2, is no longer quite so distant.
- By David Ramel
- August 09, 2018
In preview since May, the ability to enable single sign-on access to Office 365 applications using Ping Identity's PingFederate solution is now generally available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 06, 2018
First unveiled at last year's Microsoft Ignite conference, the Azure File Sync service is now ready for commercial use, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 20, 2018
Azure Service Fabric Mesh, a "serverless" means of hosting applications, is now available as a public preview, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 18, 2018
In an increasingly globalized public cloud market, the runaway leaders remain Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure -- except in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, where newcomer Alibaba continues to disrupt.
- By David Ramel
- July 11, 2018
After a one-year preview period, Azure IoT Edge is now available via the GitHub open source code repository, marking another milestone in Microsoft's commitment to the open source movement.
- By David Ramel
- June 28, 2018
A new feature preview represents the next step in Microsoft's plan to make multifactor authentication (MFA) the default verification option for its Azure Active Directory (AD) identity management service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2018
Organizations can now use a newly released Microsoft service called "Traffic Analytics" to monitor network activity within their Azure environments.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2018