In a deal announced this week, Microsoft and SAP said they will work together to optimize SAP's cloud and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for Microsoft's Azure platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 28, 2017
Microsoft's announcement this month of a "bare metal" VMware stack that runs on Microsoft Azure hardware appears to have raised VMware's hackles.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 28, 2017
In a bid to fill a void in its security portfolio, McAfee on Monday announced its plan to acquire leading cloud access security broker (CASB) Skyhigh Networks for an undisclosed amount.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 27, 2017
A recent talk by independent consultancy Directions on Microsoft gave organizations a look at what to expect from Microsoft's plan to transition its Skype for Business product to the newer Teams client.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 20, 2017
The best candidates for mergers or acquisitions have well-documented and purposeful M&A strategies that result in at least one of these characteristics.
- By Reed Warren
- November 20, 2017
Microsoft's Compliance Manager dashboard tool is now in preview, helping organizations track the regulatory compliance status of the Microsoft solutions running in their environments, as well as in their customers' environments.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2017
Intune, Microsoft's mobile management service, can now tap Google Play Protect to deliver security protections to Android devices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2017
Microsoft this week unveiled a new service that integrates its Azure platform with a globally distributed streaming analytics solution.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 15, 2017
Users of the Enterprise and Education editions of Windows 10 version 1511 just got a six-month support reprieve, Microsoft said on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2017
A new Skype service aimed at small businesses that adds scheduling and billing functionality is now in preview, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2017
Microsoft's new monitoring capability for Azure ExpressRoute, a high-bandwidth, low-latency service for establishing private Internet connections to Azure services, is now in preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 14, 2017
Microsoft this week shared some insight into how businesses are using its Azure Active Directory (AD) service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 14, 2017
Hardware vendors are now implementing Microsoft's "Project Olympus" datacenter specification, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 10, 2017
Microsoft this week released a preview version of System Center version 1711, which will be the first release under the management suite's new semiannual update model.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 09, 2017
Security software providers Bitdefender, Lookout and Ziften are partnering with Microsoft to integrate the company's Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service into their respective threat protection services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 09, 2017