A major Microsoft reorganization announced Thursday appears to signal a shift in the company's approach to its bread-and-butter Windows business. 
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
 - March 29, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Azure SQL Data Warehouse became generally available in Microsoft's Australia East, India West and Japan West datacenters this week, meaning the service is now available out of all 33 Azure regions.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - March 29, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's Azure Service Health dashboard, which customers can use to check the health of their Azure environments, is now production-ready after being in preview since last July.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - March 28, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft recently announced the addition of "next-generation" Azure Monitor alert capabilities alongside the free "classic" alerts. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - March 27, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft recently rolled out several Azure Active Directory (AD) improvements, including the ability for administrators to set expiration policies for Office 365 groups.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - March 20, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In a bid to expand the global reach of its Azure and Office 365 services, Microsoft this week shared plans to increase its number of cloud datacenter regions worldwide.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - March 15, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's Azure Virtual Machine (VM) service now has new size options for workloads that require isolated or GPU-optimized instances.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - March 13, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft recently launched previews of new Azure SQL Database improvements that are aimed at helping organizations move their workloads into the Azure cloud from on-premises database management systems.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - March 12, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The list of major security players extending their offerings to protect Microsoft's cloud is growing.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - March 08, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Organizations can now tap Microsoft's Azure Migrate tool to help migrate their on-premises virtual machines (VMs) and applications to Azure datacenter infrastructure.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - March 02, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft this week announced the general availability of Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), its new cloud-based service for detecting and analyzing security incidents.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - March 01, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft this week announced the "general availability" of StorSimple Data Manager, a solution that converts data stored by StorSimple into a format that can be used with various Azure services.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - February 28, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft 365 product licensees can now take advantage of Microsoft's Compliance Manager dashboard and the Azure Information Protection Scanner, both of which became generally available (GA) this week.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - February 23, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's Azure cloud platform still has a lot of ground to make up before it can catch market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS), but a recent report from RightScale Inc. bodes well for the challenger.
                    
			            - By David  Ramel
 - February 20, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft greenlit various Azure services this month, including Azure ExpressRoute monitoring, additions to the Azure Storage service and Azure Backup service, and the Azure Redis Cache Geo-Replication service.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - February 19, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Microsoft team responsible for Active Directory development has been ramping up its use of blockchain in a bid to improve digital identity security.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - February 15, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    As part a collaboration with Microsoft announced Wednesday, Symantec is extending its Web Security Service to Office 365 and the Azure cloud platform.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - February 08, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft this week launched a OneDrive for Business switch deal in a bid to steal away customers from some of its biggest online storage competitors, as well as collaborators.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - February 07, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Cloud upstart Alibaba is edging its way into the leader pack of the global cloud computing market, according to recently released data from Synergy Research Group.
                    
			            - By David  Ramel
 - February 06, 2018
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's Azure public cloud platform is making some inroads against market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to new research.
                    
			            - By David  Ramel
 - January 29, 2018