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
With the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements set to become law on May 25, Microsoft is working to get its cloud services and customers compliant.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 23, 2018
Microsoft gave a thorough progress report on its security portfolio at the RSA security conference this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 20, 2018
Microsoft is betting big on the Internet of Things (IoT), announcing a $5 billion investment plan spanning the next four years.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 05, 2018
Microsoft is expanding the reach of its Azure cloud platform for its customers in Australia and New Zealand.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 03, 2018
Microsoft recently starting switching on its first Azure Availability Zones, which provide uptime assurance for cloud workloads.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 02, 2018
Microsoft this week took the wraps off "Project VAST," a tool designed to surface security problems visually.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 30, 2018
A major Microsoft reorganization announced Thursday appears to signal a shift in the company's approach to its bread-and-butter Windows business.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 29, 2018
Azure SQL Data Warehouse became generally available in Microsoft's Australia East, India West and Japan West datacenters this week, meaning the service is now available out of all 33 Azure regions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 29, 2018
Microsoft's Azure Service Health dashboard, which customers can use to check the health of their Azure environments, is now production-ready after being in preview since last July.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 28, 2018
Microsoft recently announced the addition of "next-generation" Azure Monitor alert capabilities alongside the free "classic" alerts.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 27, 2018
Microsoft recently rolled out several Azure Active Directory (AD) improvements, including the ability for administrators to set expiration policies for Office 365 groups.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 20, 2018
In a bid to expand the global reach of its Azure and Office 365 services, Microsoft this week shared plans to increase its number of cloud datacenter regions worldwide.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 15, 2018
Microsoft's Azure Virtual Machine (VM) service now has new size options for workloads that require isolated or GPU-optimized instances.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 13, 2018
Microsoft recently launched previews of new Azure SQL Database improvements that are aimed at helping organizations move their workloads into the Azure cloud from on-premises database management systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 12, 2018
The list of major security players extending their offerings to protect Microsoft's cloud is growing.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 08, 2018
Organizations can now tap Microsoft's Azure Migrate tool to help migrate their on-premises virtual machines (VMs) and applications to Azure datacenter infrastructure.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 02, 2018
Microsoft this week announced the general availability of Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), its new cloud-based service for detecting and analyzing security incidents.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 01, 2018
Microsoft this week announced the "general availability" of StorSimple Data Manager, a solution that converts data stored by StorSimple into a format that can be used with various Azure services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 28, 2018
Microsoft 365 product licensees can now take advantage of Microsoft's Compliance Manager dashboard and the Azure Information Protection Scanner, both of which became generally available (GA) this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 23, 2018