Microsoft recently announced several Azure management capabilities related to Azure Log Analytics, Azure Network Watcher, Azure Monitor and Azure Blob Storage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 25, 2017
In an effort to drive business adoption of its cloud-based Chrome platform, Google this week unveiled a new edition of its Chrome OS operating system for enterprises.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2017
Microsoft this week spotlighted some new Azure security and management tools that are currently in preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 17, 2017
Microsoft on Wednesday launched a technical preview of a new service called Azure Event Grid, touting it as the next piece of its serverless computing platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 16, 2017
Microsoft on Tuesday announced its acquisition of Cycle Computing, a provider of solutions for managing large workloads in the public cloud, as well as in hybrid and on-premises datacenter infrastructures.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 15, 2017
Microsoft this week announced the addition of an auto-remediation capability to its Cloud App Security service, enabling administrators to compel user log-ins and invalidate user sessions in response to certain kinds of security threats.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 10, 2017
Most partners are not investing enough resources to take full advantage of the cloud opportunity, despite owing an ever-growing proportion of their revenues to cloud-based sales.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 08, 2017
Done right, hosting can be very profitable for partners, but it's hard to compete with the mega-vendors without taking a co-location approach.
- By Per Werngren
- August 07, 2017
Microsoft is changing up how users sign in to Azure Active Directory (AD) and their Microsoft accounts.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 03, 2017
To sidestep potential compliance issues associated with Microsoft's cloud services, an analysts suggests organizations with Enterprise Agreements (EA) should negotiate protections or special discounts upfront.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 31, 2017
Microsoft is aggressively building out blockchain services in Azure with help from financial, traditional and ISV partners.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 31, 2017
Microsoft on Wednesday launched a technical preview of its new Azure Container Instances (ACI) service, enabling Azure customers to deploy containers on the fly.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 26, 2017
Strong Azure revenue growth once again helped Microsoft post a strong quarter, as the company beat analyst forecasts during Q4 of its 2017 fiscal year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 20, 2017
Microsoft's evolving container approach doesn't necessarily deliver digital nirvana, but it is breaking new ground.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 19, 2017
Starting this month, subscribers of Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage service will be able to access an intelligent search capability that will make it easier to find photos of receipts, whiteboards, drawings and signs.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2017
After a four-month preview, Quest on Tuesday released its new cloud-based platform for managing Office 365 applications and Azure Active Directory implementations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 11, 2017
Microsoft's launch hardware partners will begin taking orders Monday for Azure Stack, a parallel version of the software that powers the Microsoft Azure public cloud and that customers will run in their own datacenters for hybrid cloud scenarios.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 10, 2017
Microsoft has expanded its FastTrack program again, this time to cover customer migrations to the Azure cloud platform.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 07, 2017
Microsoft on Thursday said it plans to acquire Acton, Mass.-based Cloudyn, which provides public cloud monitoring services for MSPs, cloud solution providers and enterprises.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 29, 2017
Microsoft recently delivered a mixed bag of news to organizations either using or considering the use of its Teams chat service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 26, 2017