Microsoft this week announced the formation of a new business group aimed at fulfilling its goal, as CEO Satya Nadella stated at this week's Ignite conference, of "democratizing AI."
- By Gladys Rama
- September 29, 2016
Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft's elastic cloud computing platform, became generally available on Tuesday.
- By Chris Paoli
- July 12, 2016
The Internet of Things is everywhere. RCP looks at how Microsoft partners are getting involved and starting to make money in this burgeoning field.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 20, 2016
Microsoft's next-generation database platform, SQL Server 2016, became generally available on Wednesday as scheduled.
- By Chris Paoli
- June 01, 2016
Companies with Enterprise Agreements (EAs) can now use prebuilt images to move their existing SQL Server licenses to Azure Virtual Machines (VMs).
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 01, 2016
In one of their most extensive collaboration efforts, Microsoft and SAP this week announced a broad partnership to integrate Azure and Office 365 with the SAP HANA data platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 18, 2016
Microsoft's next-generation relational database operating system will become publicly available on June 1, the company announced Monday.
- By Chris Paoli
- May 02, 2016
Microsoft recently issued the final release candidate (RC) of its upcoming SQL Server 2016 product.
- By Chris Paoli
- April 19, 2016
Tuesday marked the end of SQL Server 2005's "extended support" phase, meaning Microsoft's 10-year-old database server will no longer get patch support from the company.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 12, 2016
Google this week unveiled its Google Cloud Machine Learning offering, pitting it against machine learning (ML) services from cloud rivals Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- By David Ramel
- March 24, 2016
Microsoft is beefing up its cloud-based analytics service to make it more enterprise-ready, the company announced Tuesday at its first-annual Data Insights Summit in Bellevue, Wash.
- By David Ramel
- March 23, 2016
Microsoft has issued another release candidate (RC) of SQL Server 2016, signaling that the upcoming database system is nearly feature-complete.
- By David Ramel
- March 22, 2016
The spotlight was on SQL Server 2016 at Thursday's Data Driven conference, where Microsoft gave its case for enterprises to ditch Oracle's database system for its own.
- By David Ramel
- March 10, 2016
Microsoft on Monday issued a release candidate (RC0) of its upcoming SQL Server 2016 database system, as well as announced its plans to enable SQL Server to run on Linux.
- By David Ramel
- March 07, 2016
Microsoft recently released its Azure IoT Hub, the latest component of the company's cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) suite.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 08, 2016