Microsoft's Azure Container Service became commercially available on Tuesday, alongside the launch of a new open source project from partner Mesosphere.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 19, 2016
Microsoft plans to roll out several enhancements to its OneDrive for Business product over the next couple of months.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2016
You may have noticed Microsoft (and other cloud providers) usurping traditional partner services like migration. Get used to it.
- By M.S. Partner
- April 11, 2016
Microsoft's Cloud App Security service became generally available on Wednesday, enabling customers to track the use of Software-as-as-Service (SaaS) applications within their organization.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 07, 2016
The shift to cloud services presents huge challenges to managed services providers (MSPs). Industry experts say the successful MSP of the near future looks very different from the successful MSP of the recent past.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 06, 2016
Microsoft fired another volley against cloud rival Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) at its Build conference last week, announcing the preview release of its new Azure Functions service.
- By David Ramel
- April 04, 2016
Microsoft announced several developments related to its Azure cloud computing resources during Build this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 01, 2016
Since arriving at Dropbox from Microsoft just eight months ago, Thomas Hansen has put in motion a channel program that's on pace to bring on thousands of new resellers and solution integration partners.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 30, 2016
Google this week unveiled its Google Cloud Machine Learning offering, pitting it against machine learning (ML) services from cloud rivals Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- By David Ramel
- March 24, 2016
More than being just a new offering, the CSP program requires Microsoft partners to design the business model that will take them into the future.
- By Barb Levisay
- March 23, 2016
Microsoft's latest tool for checking Azure Active Directory (AD) synchronization issues is now generally available, the company announced Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 23, 2016
CEO Satya Nadella's $1 billion security initiative yields fruit with the Azure Security Center, powered by the technology behind Azure Machine Learning.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 22, 2016
According to IDC, partners that bet their businesses on Microsoft's cloud are making out like bandits. Scott digs into some of the specifics.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 16, 2016
New research from Spiceworks Inc., a provider of tools and resources for IT pros, indicates that Microsoft Azure's lead over Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) space is poised to grow.
- By David Ramel
- March 15, 2016
Redmond's cloud storage frenemies continue to deepen their integration with Microsoft even as they beef up their own services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 14, 2016
Microsoft's Dynamics AX product is now a full-fledged Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering on the Azure public cloud.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 09, 2016
As Microsoft becomes more and more desperate to drive consumption, expect the range of free services offerings from FastTrack to keep ballooning.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 09, 2016
The new Azure Active Directory Identity Protection service, which aims to ward off compromised user accounts and configuration vulnerabilities, was released as a preview on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 02, 2016
Microsoft added a number of security enhancements to its cloud offerings this week, including Azure Security Center improvements, a coming preview of Azure Active Directory Identity Protection, and a preview of a new Operations Management Suite (OMS) dashboard.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 26, 2016
Microsoft newfound embrace of open source took another step this week with the addition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) images in the Azure Marketplace.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 18, 2016