Microsoft's new fiscal year got off to a much better start than expected, with the company reporting $24.5 billion in revenues for its first FY18 quarter, more than $1 billion higher than analysts had forecast.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 26, 2017
Google is partnering with Cisco on a hybrid cloud effort that will enable workloads to run on Cisco's UCS hyperconverged infrastructure hardware and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 25, 2017
Microsoft this week unveiled new container management services for its Azure cloud, including those aimed at the Kubernetes open source container orchestration solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 24, 2017
A strategic partnership announced Monday between Microsoft and Cray will bring the latter's supercomputing capabilities to the Azure public cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 23, 2017
Microsoft has opened the door for enterprises and service providers to run Azure Stack at much greater scale.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 23, 2017
Security software provider Symantec Corp. is using Microsoft's Azure infrastructure to support its Norton line of consumer security products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 17, 2017
The years-long dispute over whether Microsoft must submit to government requests for data stored in an offshore datacenter is going to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 16, 2017
Microsoft recently released previews of three new Azure Active Directory (AD) features that are designed to control access to network resources.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 10, 2017
An Azure-native enterprise version of NetApp's Network File System (NFS) will be ready for public preview in early 2018, part of an ongoing partnership between Microsoft and NetApp.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 06, 2017
On the heels of rivals Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft is developing an appliance to physically transfer large volumes of data from customer environments to its cloud.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 03, 2017
A preview of the updated Cloud App Security solution from Microsoft is expected this month, featuring a new capability that adds conditional access protections to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 02, 2017
The first Azure Stack appliances are now shipping from OEMs like Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo, Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference on Monday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 25, 2017
Quantum computing may be years away from a product perspective, but Microsoft wants customers to start thinking about it and to keep Microsoft in mind as an important actor in the field.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 25, 2017
Veritas is extending its integration with Microsoft Azure as part of an effort to provide more support for hybrid and public clouds in its portfolio.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 21, 2017
A new "Keep me signed in" Azure Active Directory sign-in experience for end users is now in preview, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 20, 2017
The so-called "classic" Azure Portal management experience for Azure Active Directory will be retired on Nov. 30, Microsoft said on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 18, 2017
A new Microsoft Intune migration process will make it easier for organizations to switch from what Microsoft calls a "hybrid" mobile management approach to a "standalone" mobile management approach.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 18, 2017
In a move aimed at reassuring organizations wary of placing their data and code on outside infrastructure, Microsoft this week released previews of two new Azure security solutions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 15, 2017
Over 90 percent of IT pros and executives are worried about the rate of innovation among the top cloud providers and their ability to keep pace with it.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 12, 2017
In a move that combines two major providers of managed hosting and cloud services, Rackspace this week announced it is acquiring rival Datapipe in its biggest acquisition to date.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 11, 2017