Microsoft's new CPS Standard systems will likely test the mood among partners and organizations for turnkey on-premises Azure appliances.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- December 08, 2015
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is planning to sunset a couple of its Azure cache services next year in favor of its Azure Redis Cache service. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 08, 2015
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The stakes were high in security this year with attacks designed not only to steal credit-card numbers but also to shame, spy on or extort their victims.
                    
			            - By Chris  Paoli
- December 07, 2015
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    New licensing details from Microsoft about its forthcoming Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 products reveal a switch from per-processor licensing to a per-core approach.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 07, 2015
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's Azure Portal solution, which is used to manage various Azure resources, reached the general availability (GA) stage this week.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 04, 2015
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Wednesday released its Azure Container Service to public preview.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 03, 2015
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft took the wraps off its new Azure-based PowerApps development tools at this week's Convergence EMEA conference in Barcelona, Spain. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 02, 2015
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) on Tuesday unveiled the HPE Hyper-Converged 250 for Microsoft Cloud Platform System (CPS) Standard, a converged rack-mountable system designed to run Microsoft Azure within the datacenter.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- December 01, 2015
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With the shut down of its own public cloud service imminent, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is betting big on Microsoft Azure.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 30, 2015
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Diane Greene, co-founder of VMware and its former president and CEO, has just accepted a new post at Google.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 20, 2015
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Thursday released technical preview 4 (TP4) of Windows Server 2016.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 19, 2015
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    As part of a companywide restructuring plan, Citrix Systems Inc. this week announced that it is spinning off its "GoTo" product line and laying off about 1,000 employees.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- November 19, 2015
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    As expected, Microsoft on Wednesday released the second beta of its upcoming SharePoint Server 2016 product.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- November 18, 2015
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is readying a new solution aimed at increasing Office 365's compliance and security capabilities.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 18, 2015
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In a talk that might one day go down as the start of Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing 2.0" era, CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday described his company's plans to elevate security beyond the code level. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 17, 2015