Open source Azure tools were on center stage Wednesday, as Microsoft and some of its open source partners conducted an online presentation aimed at courting developers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 23, 2017
Microsoft's Azure Active Directory service now supports single sign-on access to legacy Web applications with this week's release of PingAccess with Azure AD.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 16, 2017
Think of the first release of the on-premises cloud appliance as a modest version of Microsoft's final goal.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 14, 2017
Microsoft on Thursday announced the general availability of its Intune mobile device and mobile application management solution as managed through the Azure Portal.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2017
Microsoft has extended Azure Active Directory's conditional access policies to Microsoft Teams and the Azure Portal, the company announced Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2017
With services like Azure, Dynamics 365 and Windows 10 also propelling growth, partners can expect Microsoft to keep expanding the program's scope to even more products.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 07, 2017
Microsoft recently unveiled several improvements to Azure Active Directory (AD), including enhancements to the Azure AD Application Proxy service that make it easier for organizations to connect remote end users to company-hosted Web applications.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 05, 2017
Azure BizTalk Services, which is used by organizations to bridge hybrid connections between the Internet and on-premises business applications, will be "retired on May 31, 2018," Microsoft said in a post this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 02, 2017
Microsoft on Wednesday released a technical preview of a new disaster recovery feature for its Azure Site Recovery (ASR) service, enabling customers to restore virtual machines (VMs) running on the Azure IaaS platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 31, 2017
As the European Union prepares to enforce its recently updated data privacy laws, Microsoft and other providers are retrofitting their services to ensure their customers are compliant with the new regulations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 26, 2017
Microsoft's Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management service is getting two new features, now in preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 26, 2017
Microsoft is significantly extending the reach of its cloud-based services by building new datacenters in South Africa, the company announced recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 22, 2017
VMware this week announced a partnership with Microsoft that would enable VMware's Horizon Cloud Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) infrastructure to be delivered on the Azure public cloud.
- By Keith Ward
- May 18, 2017
Despite maintaining its healthy lead in the cloud infrastructure services market, Amazon Web Services is facing increasingly strong competition from Microsoft Azure.
- By David Ramel
- May 17, 2017
The Azure AD Admin Console, an addition to the Azure Portal, is now generally available (GA) after being in preview since September, Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 16, 2017
Azure Active Directory Business-to-Consumer (B2C), Microsoft's customer-facing identity and access management service that launched last July, has a few new perks.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 15, 2017
Microsoft kicked off its 2017 Build developer conference on Wednesday in Seattle, Wash., announcing new offerings related to Azure, Cognitive Services, Visual Studio and more.
- By Michael Domingo
- May 10, 2017
Exactly two years after Microsoft first unveiled Azure Stack, Dell EMC on Thursday announced the first generation of its solution based on the forthcoming private cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 04, 2017
Microsoft recently turned the spotlight on some high-profile customers that are using its latest cloud, machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions as part of what it calls "digital transformation" initiatives.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 28, 2017
Microsoft's third-quarter financial report on Thursday was a mixed bag, with sliding hardware sales being offset by a strong showing from the company's cloud business.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 27, 2017