Starting next month, Microsoft will direct first-time buyers of its Azure services to Microsoft partners enrolled in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 11, 2017
A new "OneDrive Admin Center" Web portal, designed for IT pros who manage OneDrive for Business cloud-based storage and sharing implementations, is now available in preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 19, 2016
For years, Microsoft has been steadily bridging the gap between Azure and Windows Server. With the two products more tightly integrated than ever, partners with hybrid and private cloud expertise are poised to reap the benefits.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 14, 2016
Docker for Azure is now available for public testing, Docker announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 13, 2016
The results are in for the first-ever Redmond Channel Partner magazine Reader's Choice awards.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- December 12, 2016
Microsoft is readying a number of enhancements to its Azure portal, including a preview of administrator controls for Intune, Microsoft's mobile management service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 12, 2016
Despite competing against Microsoft in cloud-based enterprise file sharing and collaboration, Box is strengthening its integration with Office 365.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 05, 2016
At last week's re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services (AWS) executives threw down the gauntlet at Microsoft, Oracle and others that are looking to challenge its cloud dominance.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 05, 2016
Cloud leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a few updates to its partner program on Tuesday that benefit partners that have developed specialized technical practices and focus areas.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 29, 2016
Azure Data Lake, Microsoft's service for "Big Data" massively parallel types of analyses, is now production-ready, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 18, 2016
Microsoft took its ongoing courtship of open source a step further on Wednesday, announcing that it has joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2016
Microsoft on Tuesday took steps toward its goal to "democratize" artificial intelligence, partnering with nonprofit research organization OpenAI and announcing several Azure milestones aimed at helping developers tap into the platform's new compute capabilities.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2016
Microsoft's Windows Azure Pack solution is "far from being dead," Microsoft said this week after updating the product's lifecycle support information.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2016
Microsoft's Azure Active Directory portal for administrators, currently in preview, now includes new auditing features.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 10, 2016
Microsoft's Azure Container Service (ACS) Engine is now an open source project hosted on the GitHub repository, Microsoft announced Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2016
The path to a more open world has been an unpleasant one for Microsoft -- until recently.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 31, 2016
Google has expanded its datacenter service offerings to include Windows Server 2016 instances, the search giant announced Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 25, 2016
Oracle has ushered in the next generation of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) portfolio with the launch of its its new Bare Metal Cloud Services.
- By John K. Waters
- October 24, 2016
Longtime collaborators Microsoft and SAP deepened their partnership this week with the news that SAP's cloud-based human resources software will run on the Azure public cloud.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 20, 2016
The company's "Cross-Cloud" initiative aims to create a hybrid operating platform for organizations to run, connect and manage applications distributed among different public clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 19, 2016