Microsoft and Citrix this week laid out the terms of their partnership, including their plan to combine Microsoft's Azure datacenter solutions with Citrix's virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2016
Microsoft recently took some pains to explain its decision last month to change the delivery model for its upcoming Azure Stack product.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 15, 2016
Microsoft has detailed a new development in its efforts to protect data privacy in the cloud, one focused on the exchange of encrypted data between users.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 11, 2016
Given Citrix's history with Microsoft and its decision to tap a former Microsoft president as its new CEO, it should come as little surprise the company is borrowing from Microsoft's script.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 09, 2016
As partners scramble to find their place in the new cloud environment, the ISV category is expanding to include all different types of partners.
- By Barb Levisay
- August 08, 2016
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud services provider by a considerable margin, but Microsoft Azure is leading the small pack that's chasing it, according to recent data from Synergy Research Group.
- By David Ramel
- August 02, 2016
Microsoft on Wednesday launched a new identity and access management service for organizations that develop customer-facing applications.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 28, 2016
Microsoft's Azure Security Center, designed to protect virtual machines and other elements that a tenant may use when tapping Azure datacenter infrastructure, reached general availability on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 21, 2016
A ruling issued against Microsoft two years ago ordering the company to turn over the contents of e-mails stored in an offshore datacenter has been overturned by a federal appeals court.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 14, 2016
BitTitan, Dropbox, StorageCraft, Independence IT, Infinite Ops and SkyKick are among third-party vendors updating their cloud-related tools in Toronto.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 13, 2016
The new Azure Information Protection solution, which extends the security capabilities of Microsoft's Azure Rights Management Service (RMS), is now available as a public preview release.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 12, 2016
Initially expected to be released by the end of this year, Azure Stack will instead become generally available in mid-2017, Microsoft said on Tuesday.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 12, 2016
Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft's elastic cloud computing platform, became generally available on Tuesday.
- By Chris Paoli
- July 12, 2016
A new European Union-United States Privacy Shield agreement, announced by the European Commission on July 12, has the support of Microsoft's top government executive in the EU.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2016
Microsoft and General Electric (GE) on Monday unveiled a strategic partnership that will drive connections between GE's year-old Predix cloud platform for collecting and analyzing industrial data and Microsoft's various enterprise cloud applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 11, 2016
Microsoft is readying a new cloud solution that combines its Dynamics ERP and Dynamics CRM line-of-business products, the company announced Wednesday.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 06, 2016
Microsoft partners must answer some hard questions to determine which of Microsoft's CSP offerings fits their model best.
- By M.S. Partner
- June 28, 2016
The Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) public clouds are now certified to run highly sensitive workloads from government agencies.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 27, 2016
A new security service for Microsoft's Azure platform will hit preview next month and become generally available later this year, Microsoft announced Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2016
Microsoft solution provider Nutanix has joined Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in delivering solutions based on Microsoft's Azure Cloud Platform System (CPS).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 17, 2016