From Azure RemoteApp to ExpressRoute, the new features Microsoft introduced at TechEd give partners new ways to leverage Azure to develop and sell new services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 14, 2014
Microsoft on Tuesday announced some improvements to the user interface (UI) of its OneDrive for Business cloud-based storage solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 14, 2014
Microsoft's "cloud-first, mobile-first" vision took the spotlight during Monday's opening keynote of the annual TechEd conference, taking place throughout this week in Houston.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 12, 2014
A Microsoft-sponsored study indicates that businesses are showing growing interest in cloud-based services for database backup and disaster recovery scenarios.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 05, 2014
Microsoft has acquired GreenButton, a New Zealand-based provider of cloud integration solutions, for an undisclosed amount.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 01, 2014
As part of Microsoft's "Internet of things" (IoT) vision, the company this month announced a limited public preview of its Azure Intelligent Systems Service (ISS).
- By Chris Paoli
- May 01, 2014
The Desktop as a Service (DaaS) field is rife with opportunity for partners and tech giants like Amazon Web Services and VMware.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 01, 2014
As megavendors build datacenters to support their cloud visions, they're wooing solution providers that can connect customers' on-premises systems to the new cloud platforms.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 30, 2014
OneDrive for Business clients will see an increase in their default storage capacity from 25 GB to 1 terabyte (TB) "over the next few months," Microsoft said on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2014
The next update to Windows Intune, Microsoft's cloud-enabled device management product, began rolling out this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2014
Microsoft is adding new preview service tiers to Microsoft Azure SQL Database, the company said on Thursday.
- By David Ramel
- April 28, 2014
The next release of Microsoft's Forefront Identity Manager product will be renamed "Microsoft Identity Manager," and will be released by mid-2015, Microsoft announced Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2014
Two Microsoft Azure Active Directory synchronization features were released as "previews" this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2014
Redwood City, Calif.-based Equinix Inc., a provider of space, power and interconnection products and services for companies, is adding Microsoft's Azure ExpressRoute technology to its datacenters worldwide.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 22, 2014
A new automation feature for managing Microsoft Azure workloads became available as a preview on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 15, 2014
Some of Microsoft's cloud-based services have been endorsed by the European Union's Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) as meeting EU privacy law standards.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2014
Verizon and BT will support the Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute service starting this summer, enabling customers of the two telecom service providers to use their specialized connection service offerings to access various Azure services without connecting to the public Internet.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2014
Google this week unveiled "Andromeda," the code name for its new software-defined networking (SDN) technology that is powering its internal services.
- By David Ramel
- April 02, 2014
In response to Amazon's recent round of cloud compute and storage price cuts, Microsoft on Monday slashed the rates for its Window Azure -- soon to be Microsoft Azure -- cloud service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 01, 2014
Fifty-two days after taking the role of CEO at Microsoft, Satya Nadella detailed his "mobile first, cloud first" vision, as well as announced some new products, including Office for iPad and new licensing for organizations managing mobile devices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 27, 2014