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
Microsoft's Azure cloud platform still has a lot of ground to make up before it can catch market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS), but a recent report from RightScale Inc. bodes well for the challenger.
- By David Ramel
- February 20, 2018
Microsoft greenlit various Azure services this month, including Azure ExpressRoute monitoring, additions to the Azure Storage service and Azure Backup service, and the Azure Redis Cache Geo-Replication service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 19, 2018
The Microsoft team responsible for Active Directory development has been ramping up its use of blockchain in a bid to improve digital identity security.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 15, 2018
As part a collaboration with Microsoft announced Wednesday, Symantec is extending its Web Security Service to Office 365 and the Azure cloud platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 08, 2018
Microsoft this week launched a OneDrive for Business switch deal in a bid to steal away customers from some of its biggest online storage competitors, as well as collaborators.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 07, 2018
Cloud upstart Alibaba is edging its way into the leader pack of the global cloud computing market, according to recently released data from Synergy Research Group.
- By David Ramel
- February 06, 2018
Microsoft's Azure public cloud platform is making some inroads against market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to new research.
- By David Ramel
- January 29, 2018
Microsoft is positioning its Azure support services to be more comparable to Amazon Web Services (AWS), lowering plan costs and improving "critical" case response times.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 26, 2018