Microsoft added two new virtual machine (VM) families to its lineup of Azure compute options this month: the lower-cost B-Series and the memory-intensive M-Series.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 12, 2017
Microsoft highlighted its progress on the Kubernetes-on-Azure front this week at the KubeCon event in Austin, Texas.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 08, 2017
Will Azure Stack appliances become pervasive in datacenters and develop a considerable global footprint in existing hosting facilities?
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 07, 2017
As Azure gains ground in the public cloud space and Microsoft refines its partner organization to make Azure sales more enticing, an ecosystem of offerings is springing up around the platform. We take a look at the opportunities for partners to offer Azure-based services.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 06, 2017
Microsoft is offering some help to users of its OneDrive Sync Client in the form of new tutorials.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 06, 2017
Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled some programmatic changes to its partner structure during its AWS re:Invent Global Partner Summit this week in Las Vegas.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 30, 2017
Microsoft and Box hit another milestone in their partnership recently with the availability of the Box collaboration and enterprise content management (ECM) service on Microsoft's Azure public cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 29, 2017
In a deal announced this week, Microsoft and SAP said they will work together to optimize SAP's cloud and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for Microsoft's Azure platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 28, 2017
Microsoft's announcement this month of a "bare metal" VMware stack that runs on Microsoft Azure hardware appears to have raised VMware's hackles.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 28, 2017
In a bid to fill a void in its security portfolio, McAfee on Monday announced its plan to acquire leading cloud access security broker (CASB) Skyhigh Networks for an undisclosed amount.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 27, 2017
Microsoft this week unveiled a new service that integrates its Azure platform with a globally distributed streaming analytics solution.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 15, 2017
Microsoft's new monitoring capability for Azure ExpressRoute, a high-bandwidth, low-latency service for establishing private Internet connections to Azure services, is now in preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 14, 2017
Microsoft this week shared some insight into how businesses are using its Azure Active Directory (AD) service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 14, 2017
Hardware vendors are now implementing Microsoft's "Project Olympus" datacenter specification, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 10, 2017
Despite recording significant increases in their latest earnings reports, neither Microsoft nor Google managed to put a significant dent in Amazon's lead in the cloud infrastructure services market.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 01, 2017
A newly refocused Cloud Solution Provider program is giving partners hope for better relationships with Microsoft field reps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 30, 2017
Microsoft's new fiscal year got off to a much better start than expected, with the company reporting $24.5 billion in revenues for its first FY18 quarter, more than $1 billion higher than analysts had forecast.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 26, 2017
Google is partnering with Cisco on a hybrid cloud effort that will enable workloads to run on Cisco's UCS hyperconverged infrastructure hardware and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 25, 2017
Microsoft this week unveiled new container management services for its Azure cloud, including those aimed at the Kubernetes open source container orchestration solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 24, 2017
A strategic partnership announced Monday between Microsoft and Cray will bring the latter's supercomputing capabilities to the Azure public cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 23, 2017