Research firm Gartner Inc. has singled out Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as the two runaway leaders in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) space.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 21, 2015
Microsoft Azure performed slightly better than Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Nasuni's latest cloud storage report.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 18, 2015
The first five months of 2015 have been marked by nonstop product news from Microsoft, culminating in a pair of back-to-back major conferences. In taking stock of all the announcements, RCP finds that some products have fared better than others.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 12, 2015
Microsoft unveiled its new Operations Management Suite (OMS) at the Ignite conference last week, giving organizations a tool to manage resources in clouds of any type, including Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- By David Ramel
- May 11, 2015
NetSuite Inc. this week announced it plan to move its enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to Microsoft Azure from Amazon Web Service (AWS) by year's end.
- By David Ramel
- May 08, 2015
Microsoft unveiled the new "Azure Stack" offering at its Ignite conference this week, signaling a change of direction from its old "Cloud OS" vision.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 07, 2015
Microsoft on Wednesday made a financial case for shifting its business to the cloud.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2015
It's not enough for partners to drive sales of Microsoft's cloud; now, they're being asked to drive cloud workloads.
- By M.S. Partner
- April 30, 2015
Microsoft recently unveiled a number of improvements to its Azure cloud platform, including a premium storage service and a streaming analytics service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 21, 2015
Perhaps you've heard the buzz about containers and how they're poised to become the next big thing in cloud computing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 20, 2015
Many partners are looking to become DRaaS providers and there are many ways to provide disaster recovery services. Find the delivery approach that works for you.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 15, 2015
There are now almost as many ways to bill for the cloud services that partners deliver to customers as there are cloud services.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 13, 2015
As of Thursday, all users of Microsoft's Office Online Apps, including Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint and Word, can now access files stored on Dropbox servers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 09, 2015
Enterprise and service provider customers running Microsoft's Cloud Platform System (CPS) will receive software updates on a "predictable quarterly cadence," Microsoft said recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 07, 2015
While sticking to its roots in fast, local backup and recovery, Utah-based StorageCraft is investing aggressively in heavy-duty cloud disaster protection solutions and expanding its global footprint.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 30, 2015
Microsoft on Thursday announced improvements to Azure centering around backup and disaster recovery, as well as took the wraps off a new service called "Availability on Demand for Azure."
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 27, 2015
Microsoft on Tuesday announced it was packaging three of its Azure services -- Azure Websites, Mobile Services and BizTalk Services -- into a single offering aimed at business decision makers and developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 24, 2015
Microsoft on Tuesday said it is expanding its ExpressRoute service to enable secure connections to Office 365 services later this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 18, 2015
Microsoft on Monday talked up its "Internet of Things" (IoT) vision, and the roles that its Azure and Windows products will play in it.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 17, 2015
As the channel shifts further and further away from selling products, customers tell us more and more how they don't want to talk with salespeople anymore.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- March 16, 2015