Organizations worldwide are poised to increase their security spending in 2018 by 8 percent, driven by the raft of high-profile security blunders that made news headlines throughout the past year.
- By Chris Paoli
- January 02, 2018
Microsoft's Cloud Solution Provider program is growing rapidly, and that means growing pains. Potential CSPs should learn about some of the program's current challenges before making the leap.
- By M.S. Partner
- December 20, 2017
Oracle is expected to acquire Aconex, a provider of cloud-based collaboration solutions for the construction industry, for $1.2 billion U.S. or $7.80 per share.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 19, 2017
Businesses that migrate their on-premises workloads to the cloud using a "direct match" method are missing out on significant cost savings, according to a recent study by Microsoft Azure migration partner TSO Logic.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 19, 2017
Microsoft is slated to release a new "Azure Migrate" solution within the next six months, a company executive said in a recent presentation.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 18, 2017
In the last few years, the number of Cloud Solution Provider Indirect Providers operating in the United States has jumped from just five to more than 14. Indirect Resellers have lots of choices, ranging from distys to LSPs to cloud distys to CSP specialists.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 13, 2017
Recent data from Gartner indicates that worldwide server revenue went up by 16 percent in the third quarter of this year.
- By Becky Nagel
- December 12, 2017
Microsoft added two new virtual machine (VM) families to its lineup of Azure compute options this month: the lower-cost B-Series and the memory-intensive M-Series.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 12, 2017
A new "hybrid modern authentication" capability is now generally available for Skype for Business and Exchange, Microsoft announced recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 11, 2017
Microsoft highlighted its progress on the Kubernetes-on-Azure front this week at the KubeCon event in Austin, Texas.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 08, 2017
Will Azure Stack appliances become pervasive in datacenters and develop a considerable global footprint in existing hosting facilities?
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 07, 2017
As Azure gains ground in the public cloud space and Microsoft refines its partner organization to make Azure sales more enticing, an ecosystem of offerings is springing up around the platform. We take a look at the opportunities for partners to offer Azure-based services.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 06, 2017
Microsoft is offering some help to users of its OneDrive Sync Client in the form of new tutorials.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 06, 2017
Microsoft this week showed how SharePoint site customizations differ between the "modern" SharePoint Framework Extensions (SPFx) approach and the "classic" model.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 05, 2017
The biggest security incident of the year serves as a reminder for organizations to refocus on and prioritize strong network defenses.
- By Chris Paoli
- December 01, 2017