Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week took turns touting their respective clouds' footprints and public sector credentials, often at each other's expense.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 18, 2016
More known for its PC, laptop and server products, Lenovo is making inroads in the digital workspace market dominated by Citrix and VMware.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 18, 2016
Coping with Microsoft's newly frantic pace of cloud product updates, partners are thrilled to at last be moving as fast as the competition, but the pressure is on to get better at advising customers.
- By Barb Levisay
- October 17, 2016
In an announcement that top company executives described as "industry-shaping," Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware on Thursday unveiled a joint hybrid cloud service dubbed "VMware Cloud on AWS."
- By John K. Waters
- October 14, 2016
Dynamics 365, a new cloud service from Microsoft that combines components of its CRM and ERP offerings, will become available on Nov. 1, the company announced Tuesday.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 11, 2016
The next battleground for the top cloud providers will be artificial intelligence (AI), if recent developments are anything to go by.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 10, 2016
Two of Microsoft's Azure Active Directory products hit their "general availability" milestones this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 06, 2016
Microsoft is planning a number of improvements to its OneDrive for Business product, including its browser, mobile, synchronization and IT capabilities.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 29, 2016
Microsoft's ongoing upgrades to its public cloud infrastructure means Azure has the fastest and most AI-optimized network among cloud providers, the company said this week at its Ignite conference in Atlanta.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 28, 2016
Microsoft this week added Workday to its list of strategic partnerships aimed at bolstering its cloud productivity suite.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 27, 2016
Microsoft shined the spotlight on its forthcoming enterprise products on Monday at the Ignite conference, taking place this week in Atlanta, Ga.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 26, 2016
Adobe's Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings will run primarily in Microsoft's Azure public cloud, the two companies announced Monday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 26, 2016
We ask partners grappling with the realities of transitioning their businesses to the cloud: Is it worth it?
- By Barb Levisay
- September 26, 2016
In the two-horse race between AWS and Microsoft Azure in the public cloud, only one can be considered to have a robust ecosystem of platform partners. And it's not Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 21, 2016
By most measures, the public cloud market is a two-horse race between AWS and Microsoft. Partners are increasingly seeing the benefits of tying their fortunes to both cloud vendors, but doing so requires a good deal of training, planning and trust.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 19, 2016
Microsoft's top cloud executive this week signaled a shift away from the tradition of intense price-based competition between Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) and Azure.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 14, 2016
Microsoft's Azure portal management tool is getting new Azure Active Directory features, which the company unveiled on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 13, 2016
Two new products bearing Microsoft's Azure Active Directory (AD) brand are expected to exit the preview stage next week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 08, 2016
Microsoft took steps to expand its cloud footprint this week with the launch of new datacenter locations in the United Kingdom.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 07, 2016
Microsoft's announcement of a more restrictive deployment model for Azure Stack, in addition to its delayed release, has left lots of partners scrambling.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 06, 2016