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
Microsoft is planning to expand the availability of Azure Stack to 92 countries, doubling the number from the product's initial launch back at last year's Microsoft Ignite event.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2018
"Project Natick," Microsoft's experimental datacenter that cools itself by being immersed under ocean waters, has reached the next phase of development.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 07, 2018
Microsoft this week gave a progress report on its partnership with SAP, particularly their joint efforts to run SAP's enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, SAP S/4HANA, on Azure infrastructure.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 05, 2018
Microsoft's Cloud App Security solution this week became the company's latest service to be optimized for the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy law.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 31, 2018
Microsoft kicked off the start of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation on Friday with a speech by President Brad Smith and the release of multiple resources for staying in compliance.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 25, 2018
Businesses in all size categories are more likely to use Microsoft OneDrive as their cloud storage service than rivals like Google Drive, Amazon Drive and Apple iCloud.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- May 25, 2018
The latest addition to Microsoft's sprawling Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) product line, SQL ATP, is now available for Azure SQL Database users.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 18, 2018
Several improvements, including one related to Microsoft's partnership with Ping Identity, are coming to Azure Active Directory in May.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 18, 2018
Microsoft this week put the spotlight on its partners' efforts around its Azure confidential computing project.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 10, 2018
A preview of Red Hat OpenShift on Azure will be released "in the coming months," Microsoft said this week in a progress report on its collaboration efforts with Red Hat.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 09, 2018
Microsoft put the spotlight on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning at Monday's kickoff of the Build 2018 conference in Seattle.
- By Michael Desmond
- May 07, 2018
OneDrive's file-sharing and collaboration capabilities are coming to Office for Mac, as well as to iOS and Android mobile applications, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 27, 2018
A new service from Microsoft that lets users easily spin up containers on its public datacenter infrastructure is now production-ready.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 27, 2018