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
Users of Microsoft's Office 365 Groups service will see some new feature updates this month, including administrative controls for IT pros.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 10, 2015
Demand has never been higher for ways to protect data from prying eyes. Solutions abound for partners looking to encrypt their customers' data in Microsoft environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 09, 2015
Microsoft on Tuesday released System Center Configuration Manager 1511, which Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson described as "the most significant and important release of ConfigMgr ever."
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 08, 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
The stakes were high in security this year with attacks designed not only to steal credit-card numbers but also to shame, spy on or extort their victims.
- By Chris Paoli
- December 07, 2015
New licensing details from Microsoft about its forthcoming Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 products reveal a switch from per-processor licensing to a per-core approach.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 07, 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 this week announced the public preview of integration between Power BI, its self-service and cloud-based business intelligence tool, and Cortana, its digital personal assistant that comes in Windows 10.
- By David Ramel
- December 03, 2015
For years, there's been conflict between MCS and Microsoft's closest enterprise partners -- sometimes boiling, sometimes just steaming. It's time for Microsoft to start communicating honestly and openly with partners about the role, and compensation model, of MCS.
- By Barb Levisay
- December 03, 2015
Microsoft on Wednesday released its Azure Container Service to public preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 03, 2015
Stephen Boyle spent his first four months on the job getting an education from partners and other Microsoft executives. Now he's vowing to provide some education in the form of partner enablement.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 02, 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
The so-called "detachable tablet" segment that Microsoft pioneered in 2012 with the introduction of the Surface is expected to grow by 75 percent in 2016, outpacing an overall shrinking tablet market.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 01, 2015