Microsoft last week rolled out preview releases of Azure DocumentDB and Azure Search, as well as announced the general availability of Azure HDInsight.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 25, 2014
Amazon Web Services (AWS) may be the current cloud leader, but growing competition from Microsoft Azure and the cloud price war are putting a dent on its lead.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 14, 2014
A U.S. district court judge has upheld a search warrant ordering Microsoft to turn over e-mails stored in its datacenter in Dublin, Ireland.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 04, 2014
A Microsoft-backed study is spotlighting the benefits to organizations of using public cloud services for backup and disaster recovery (DR) scenarios.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 30, 2014
Though Amazon Web Services (AWS) still leads the cloud infrastructure services space, it faces increasing competition from Microsoft and IBM, according to research by Synergy Research Group and Gartner Inc.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 29, 2014
Microsoft this week launched a second preview of its Azure Active Directory (AD) Sync Services that incorporates several user-suggested improvements.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 29, 2014
The transition to cloud is tough for the Microsoft channel. Some cloud 1.0 pioneers who survived to be cloud 2.0 veterans share their tales from the trenches about strategies that sounded smart at the time, but could have cost them their businesses if they hadn't been nimble.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 28, 2014
Microsoft's ExpressRoute service has expanded into seven cities and added two new partners, the company announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2014
Microsoft unveiled a number of changes intended to drive partner investment in its cloud services during Monday's opening keynote of the Worldwide Partner Conference, taking place this week in Washington, D.C.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 14, 2014
Microsoft unveiled an opportunity for its partners to leverage the Azure cloud platform to sell their services at the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) on Monday.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 14, 2014
Microsoft has acquired San Jose, Calif.-based InMage for an undisclosed amount, it announced Friday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 11, 2014
Microsoft on Wednesday sketched out some plans for its Azure cloud platform that it will likely spotlight at its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) next week in Washington, D.C.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 10, 2014
Microsoft is aiming to offer an alternative to traditional enterprise storage with a hybrid solution that consists of a new implementation of its StorSimple appliances.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 09, 2014
Microsoft is beefing up its public sector cloud services, announcing a new Dynamics CRM Online offering for government users and expanding access to its Azure government cloud preview.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 09, 2014
Microsoft recently rolled out its Azure RemoteApp client for Windows RT devices, giving Windows RT users a way to access apps that they can't install on their machines.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 30, 2014
Google this week rolled out Google Drive for Work as part of a number of enterprise-grade enhancements to its cloud services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 27, 2014
With cloud computing at the center of recent high-profile security breaches and the NSA spying revelations, providers like Microsoft have been feeling pressure from customers to lock down their data.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 25, 2014
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery, previously called Hyper-V Recovery Manager, is now available in preview, Microsoft said on Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 20, 2014
"Azure ML," Microsoft's new machine learning service based on its Azure cloud platform, will launch as a preview next month, the company said Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 17, 2014
A new version of Microsoft's Azure Active Directory (AD) Application Proxy service is now available as a preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2014