Few dispute that SharePoint in the cloud is the future. The challenge for partners and customers is determining the best path to get there.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 10, 2013
Microsoft recently beefed up its Windows Azure offerings, making some services generally available and others available as "previews."
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 02, 2013
Microsoft's Windows Azure, Office 365 and Outlook.com services suffered outages on Thursday, according to reports.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 22, 2013
Microsoft this month rolled out a slew of new services to Windows Azure as part of an update designed to integrate the cloud platform with Microsoft's latest flagship software offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 24, 2013
The outgoing Microsoft CEO gave his "all in" cloud mandate over three years ago, but entrenched players like Amazon Web Services and Google have left Microsoft fighting to secure a foothold for its own cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 16, 2013
Phil Sorgen this week gave an overview of his goals as the new leader of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Group (WPG).
- By Gladys Rama
- October 09, 2013
Microsoft is expected to release several no-cost enhancements to Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) by year's end.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 07, 2013
Microsoft on Thursday launched its Windows Azure-based multi-factor authentication product, previously code-named "Active Authentication" in its preview phase.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 26, 2013
The keynote talk from Microsoft's Brad Anderson on Tuesday detailed the fruits of a partnership inked just this summer between the two software giants.
- By John K. Waters
- September 25, 2013
How one small Microsoft partner in the U.K. leveraged the Windows Azure cloud service to win a huge contract against consortiums of IT giants -- enabling a more robust solution at a lower cost than traditional IT approaches could promise.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 25, 2013
The recent revelations about the depth of the NSA's surveillance program are dragging old questions about cloud privacy back to the forefront.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 17, 2013
Microsoft on Monday joined Google, Facebook and Yahoo in filing amended motions to disclose more details about customer data access requests from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 10, 2013
Microsoft on Tuesday launched a preview of a new distributed cache service for Windows Azure-hosted applications as part of a set of improvements to the cloud platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 06, 2013
A preview release of Microsoft's Windows Azure Rights Management Service (RMS), which provides organizational control over shared file access, is now available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 04, 2013
Microsoft recently bumped up the storage capacities for two of its cloud-based storage services -- SkyDrive Pro and Exchange Online.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 04, 2013
Microsoft recently became the first cloud service provider to pass a Service Organizations Control (SOC) 2 Type II audit conducted by Deloitte & Touche, a new security compliance audit recommended by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2013
Microsoft's Windows Azure-based disaster recovery solution for private clouds is now available as a limited public preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 19, 2013
Microsoft on Monday unveiled five new improvements to its Windows Azure cloud platform, including SQL Server AlwaysOn support.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 13, 2013
For organizations heavily focused on its cloud, server and management technologies, Microsoft is planning to roll out a new Enterprise Agreement license option called "Server and Cloud Enrollment" (SCE).
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 13, 2013
Microsoft will now publicly disclose the availability statistics for its cloud-based Office 365 service, the company announced on Thursday.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 08, 2013