Microsoft this week took the wraps off a new software-defined datacenter certification program for storage and hyper-converged systems running Windows Server 2016.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 19, 2017
Microsoft's evolving container approach doesn't necessarily deliver digital nirvana, but it is breaking new ground.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 19, 2017
Microsoft recently announced several licensing and product changes affecting Software Assurance benefits, App-V deployments, Exchange Online Unified Messaging and even Microsoft Office and Nano Server.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2017
Amid a major internal reorganization to realign its sales and marketing units, Microsoft this week announced an addition to its leadership ranks.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 18, 2017
SQL Server 2017, Microsoft's next-generation relational database platform, is inching closer to general availability with this week's Release Candidate 1 (RC1) rollout.
- By Chris Paoli
- July 18, 2017
The landscape inside Microsoft is in flux as the company reorganizes its sales structure. For partners, the chaos presents both threat and opportunity.
- By M.S. Partner
- July 18, 2017
In Part 3 of a three-part Q&A from the Microsoft Inspire conference, Microsoft One Commercial Partner CVP Ron Huddleston talks about two of the most important new concepts for partners to understand to succeed in Microsoft's revised channel model.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 17, 2017
Members of Microsoft's Windows Insider Program recently received access to the first preview build of Windows Server 2016, dubbed build 16237.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 17, 2017
Microsoft's recently unveiled plan to expand rural broadband access in the United States using white space has been criticized by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) as being "the height of arrogance."
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 14, 2017
In Part 2 of a three-part Q&A from the Microsoft Inspire conference, Ron Huddleston, head of Microsoft's One Commercial Partner unit, explains how Microsoft is trying to simplify its partner-facing organization to work more effectively with its massive partner network.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 14, 2017
In Part 1 of a three-part Q&A from the Microsoft Inspire conference, Huddleston explains his philosophy on partnering and how his background at Salesforce.com and Oracle is informing his approach to the channel at Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 13, 2017
Starting this month, subscribers of Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage service will be able to access an intelligent search capability that will make it easier to find photos of receipts, whiteboards, drawings and signs.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2017
With the European Union preparing to overhaul its data privacy laws next year, Microsoft is urging its partners to take advantage of the opportunity as customers grapple with the changes.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 12, 2017
As cloud pushes the channel to evolve, Microsoft solution providers must proactively seek to partner with other ISVs to target that DevOps sweet spot.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- July 12, 2017
Microsoft this week said it plans to make Intel's newly released Xeon Scalable processors "a cornerstone" of Project Olympus, its open source datacenter hardware effort.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2017