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
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the "general availability" of the Azure App Service on Linux, adding infrastructure support for Linux Web and mobile application developers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 06, 2017
Microsoft has launched a public preview of a new capability within Azure Active Directory (AD) Domain Services that adds support for virtual networks using Azure Resource Manager.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 30, 2017
VMware kicked off its annual VMworld conference this week with a multicloud vision that's nevertheless heavy on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 28, 2017
Microsoft has launched a new technical support program called "Microsoft Unified Support," its replacement for the current Premier Support program.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 28, 2017
Microsoft recently announced several Azure management capabilities related to Azure Log Analytics, Azure Network Watcher, Azure Monitor and Azure Blob Storage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 25, 2017
In an effort to drive business adoption of its cloud-based Chrome platform, Google this week unveiled a new edition of its Chrome OS operating system for enterprises.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2017
Microsoft this week spotlighted some new Azure security and management tools that are currently in preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 17, 2017
Microsoft on Wednesday launched a technical preview of a new service called Azure Event Grid, touting it as the next piece of its serverless computing platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 16, 2017
Microsoft on Tuesday announced its acquisition of Cycle Computing, a provider of solutions for managing large workloads in the public cloud, as well as in hybrid and on-premises datacenter infrastructures.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 15, 2017
Microsoft this week announced the addition of an auto-remediation capability to its Cloud App Security service, enabling administrators to compel user log-ins and invalidate user sessions in response to certain kinds of security threats.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 10, 2017
Most partners are not investing enough resources to take full advantage of the cloud opportunity, despite owing an ever-growing proportion of their revenues to cloud-based sales.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 08, 2017
Done right, hosting can be very profitable for partners, but it's hard to compete with the mega-vendors without taking a co-location approach.
- By Per Werngren
- August 07, 2017
Microsoft is changing up how users sign in to Azure Active Directory (AD) and their Microsoft accounts.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 03, 2017
To sidestep potential compliance issues associated with Microsoft's cloud services, an analysts suggests organizations with Enterprise Agreements (EA) should negotiate protections or special discounts upfront.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 31, 2017
Microsoft is aggressively building out blockchain services in Azure with help from financial, traditional and ISV partners.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 31, 2017
Microsoft on Wednesday launched a technical preview of its new Azure Container Instances (ACI) service, enabling Azure customers to deploy containers on the fly.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 26, 2017
Strong Azure revenue growth once again helped Microsoft post a strong quarter, as the company beat analyst forecasts during Q4 of its 2017 fiscal year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 20, 2017
Microsoft's evolving container approach doesn't necessarily deliver digital nirvana, but it is breaking new ground.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 19, 2017