The first technical preview of Microsoft's new Azure Stack solutions will be released on Friday, according to a Microsoft announcement.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 26, 2016
VMware, whose parent company is set to be acquired by Dell as part of the largest deal in IT history, reportedly began laying off employees this week, just ahead of its fourth-quarter earnings announcement.
- By Keith Ward
- January 26, 2016
Microsoft plans to contribute $1 billion in cloud resources over the next three years to nonprofit organizations, the company said this week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 20, 2016
Barely two weeks into the new year, the top three players in the public cloud arena have already started another tussle over their ever-declining cloud costs.
- By Gladys Rama, David Ramel
- January 15, 2016
Just two months after divesting its "GoTo" product lineup, Citrix Systems on Tuesday announced it was moving its restructuring efforts forward with the sale of its cloud management portfolio.
- By Keith Ward
- January 13, 2016
Microsoft's Active Directory synchronization tool known as "Azure AD Connect" has been seeing good adoption since its release in June, Microsoft said this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 07, 2016
Microsoft recently detailed some upcoming milestones for its integration solutions, including BizTalk Server 2016 and Azure.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 05, 2016
Microsoft has acquired Talko, a company that provides conferencing and telephony services, for an undisclosed amount.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 22, 2015
Microsoft this week unveiled a new policy that will grant its OneDrive for Business customers "unlimited storage," but only if they meet certain conditions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 17, 2015
Backup services provider Carbonite on Wednesday announced its plan to acquire Seagate-owned EVault, which offers Backup as a Service using the Microsoft Azure cloud, for $14 million.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 16, 2015
The old three-legged-stool model of partner-delivered IT services -- consulting, advisory services and support -- needs to adapt to the changing technology environment.
- By Mike Harvath
- December 16, 2015
Microsoft recently made some concessions to users of its OneDrive cloud service who were angered by Microsoft's planned reduction in storage capacity.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 14, 2015
Cloud computing may be the poster child of disruptive technology, but there are a few business tenets that are simply impervious to change.
- By M.S. Partner
- December 10, 2015
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
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