Microsoft has released a "preliminary root cause analysis" for Monday's Azure AD issue that took out multiple Microsoft 365 and cloud applications for at least two hours.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 16, 2021
A new External Identities capability in the Azure Active Directory service became generally available (GA) this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 12, 2021
Today's cloud landscape leans heavily in the direction of multicloud and hybrid, with Amazon Web Services holding an ever-shrinking lead over Microsoft Azure.
- By David Ramel
- March 11, 2021
The Ignite virtual conference put much of the spotlight on Microsoft Mesh, a new Azure-based platform for building "cross-platform mixed reality apps."
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 02, 2021
Microsoft recently announced an upcoming increase in the Azure Active Directory B2C service-level agreement (SLA).
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 25, 2021
Microsoft is adding three more industry-specific cloud programs to its offerings with help from its partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2021
A partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will bring Microsoft Azure to the International Space Station (ISS) by way of HPE's Spaceborne Computer-2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 16, 2021
Cloud spending has been on a tear, due in no small part to cloud giants Microsoft and AWS increasing their investments in respective partner programs.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 10, 2021
Microsoft this week described a standardized approach for configuring and managing Windows 10 PCs called "Windows 10 in cloud configuration."
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 03, 2021
Microsoft and SAP this week announced plans to integrate Microsoft Teams with SAP solutions, a notable expansion of their existing collaboration around Microsoft Azure.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 22, 2021
Starting April 1, Microsoft plans to increase its service-level agreement (SLA) for Azure Active Directory to "four nines" of uptime -- or 99.99 percent -- each month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 05, 2021
Azure Stack HCI is now generally available from Microsoft, in conjunction with its hardware partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 14, 2020
Microsoft's Azure Digital Twins service for modeling physical environments is now generally available over two years after being released as a preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 09, 2020
Microsoft this week described release milestones for several of its emerging cloud data management products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 03, 2020
Microsoft has expanded its Azure Hybrid Benefit licensing program to include Linux servers, particularly Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise servers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2020
As part of its Azure for Operators program, Microsoft this week joined a nonprofit standards association that focuses on SDN technologies used by enterprises and service providers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 27, 2020
Microsoft recently unveiled its new Azure Modular Datacenters, boxcar-like structures that can deliver compute and storage capabilities anywhere on earth.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 21, 2020
Global tech spending has taken a hit in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but analysts expect it to rebound next year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 16, 2020
Microsoft and Arm are collaborating on Azure developer tools for "intelligent edge devices" that use artificial intelligence, per a Thursday announcement.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 09, 2020
Big Blue is splitting its operations as part of an ongoing effort to become the world's top hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) provider.
- By David Ramel
- October 08, 2020