Microsoft is acquiring ADRM Software Inc. for an undisclosed amount and incorporating the entire team into its Microsoft Azure global engineering business.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 18, 2020
SAS Institute Inc. has chosen Microsoft Azure to be its preferred cloud service provider, expanding the two companies' existing partnership.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 16, 2020
A Gartner report identifies the top partners offering assistance to customers of the industry's biggest cloud computing platforms -- namely Azure, AWS and Google.
- By David Ramel
- June 15, 2020
Microsoft's plan to alleviate organizations of the pain of managing print servers continues to take shape.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 27, 2020
Microsoft is acquiring Metaswitch Networks to bolster Azure offerings to communications service providers, per a Thursday announcement.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 14, 2020
An update to the Azure VMware Solution, a first-party Azure service that's built and supported by Microsoft and endorsed by VMware, was released as a preview this week.
- By David Ramel
- May 05, 2020
After staying mostly under the radar since its launch last September, Microsoft's Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service is poised for a significant revamp.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2020
A recent Flexera survey of 750 enterprises and SMBs indicates robust spending on public cloud services, with a strong reliance on multicloud and hybrid cloud approaches.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 28, 2020
Users of Microsoft 365 Business will be able to access Azure Active Directory Premium P1 licensing free of charge, Microsoft said this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 08, 2020
Microsoft is promising to enable new edge computing scenarios for partners and developers with Azure Edge Zones, which became available as a preview this week.
- By David Ramel
- April 02, 2020
Microsoft recently shared some statistics on the growth of its services since widespread "shelter-in-place" mandates due to novel coronavirus concerns have taken effect.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 30, 2020
Microsoft recently described how its Azure, AI and machine learning offerings are being used by researchers responding to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 23, 2020
A new Azure feature called Backup Reports is now available as a public preview, Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 04, 2020
Microsoft and Cisco this week announced the "seamless integration" of the two companies' IoT and cloud products, enabling more edge computing scenarios.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 03, 2020
A new service from Microsoft partner Skytap aims to smooth the way for organizations to move on-premises applications based on IBM Power processors to Microsoft Azure datacenters.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 27, 2020
Microsoft's Azure Sphere security solution for Internet of Things (IoT) devices became generally available on Monday, roughly two years after it was first introduced.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2020
Google last week announced the general availability of its Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory product after being in development for about two years.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2020
A new report from the NSA identifies what the agency considers the top cloud security issue plaguing organizations: misconfigured privacy settings.
- By David Ramel
- February 06, 2020
Microsoft's Backup Explorer tool for Azure, which is designed to monitor backups across an organization's "estate," is now available as a preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 05, 2020
Microsoft warned users that their customer support case information may have been exposed at the end of 2019 due to security misconfigurations in an Azure-hosted database.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 22, 2020