Microsoft's Accelerated Networking technology for Azure virtual machines (VMs) is now production-ready.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 08, 2018
Newly released data from Synergy Research Group indicates that cloud computing still trails the traditional enterprise hardware market, despite growing faster any other IT category in 2017.
- By Gladys Rama
- January 05, 2018
This week's disclosure of a far-reaching CPU security vulnerability has prompted a raft of responses from OS vendors, researchers, chip makers and security software providers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 04, 2018
VMware appears to have reached a détente with Microsoft regarding the latter's emerging VMware virtualization on Azure solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 04, 2018
Microsoft on Wednesday announced its acquisition of Avere Systems, a 10-year-old provider of hybrid cloud storage solutions, for an undisclosed amount.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 03, 2018
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