Google is partnering with Cisco on a hybrid cloud effort that will enable workloads to run on Cisco's UCS hyperconverged infrastructure hardware and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 25, 2017
Microsoft this week outlined its roadmap for bringing Skype for Business capabilities into Microsoft Teams, a decision it first announced at its Ignite event last month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 25, 2017
Microsoft this week unveiled new container management services for its Azure cloud, including those aimed at the Kubernetes open source container orchestration solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 24, 2017
A strategic partnership announced Monday between Microsoft and Cray will bring the latter's supercomputing capabilities to the Azure public cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 23, 2017
Microsoft upended its channel-facing corporate structure this year and unveiled major new engagement models and other programs for working with partners. In this special section, RCP describes and unpacks the myriad changes.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 23, 2017
The channel and field reorg in Redmond is unleashing a flood of new terms and initialisms. Are OCP, TCM, ECM, PDM, PMA, RVP and STU all getting to be TMI? Use this glossary FTW. HTH.
- By M.S. Partner
- October 23, 2017
Microsoft has opened the door for enterprises and service providers to run Azure Stack at much greater scale.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 23, 2017
Microsoft this week described a pair of new subscription plans for its Visio Online service, which became available for Office 365 subscribers back in March.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 20, 2017
Version 1709 of Windows Server 2016 became generally available on Tuesday, marking the operating system's first "semiannual channel" release for businesses that want to receive updates from Microsoft at a faster clip.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 18, 2017
When it rolled out the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update earlier this week, Microsoft gave much of the limelight to its support for mixed reality headsets and various user interface improvements. However, Microsoft's latest operating system update offers a vast array of other practical features.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 18, 2017
Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off the new Surface Book 2, in addition to announcing the general availability of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (previously code-named "Redstone 3").
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 17, 2017
Security software provider Symantec Corp. is using Microsoft's Azure infrastructure to support its Norton line of consumer security products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 17, 2017
The years-long dispute over whether Microsoft must submit to government requests for data stored in an offshore datacenter is going to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 16, 2017
A review of the Web sites of the RCP 200 reveals best practices and interesting trends -- as well as areas for improvement -- in the public face that Microsoft partners present to the world.
- By Barb Levisay
- October 16, 2017
Microsoft's privacy features in the Home and Pro editions of the Windows 10 "Anniversary Update" and the "Creators Update" were found to violate privacy laws set forth by the the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA).
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 13, 2017