Arguably one of Microsoft's biggest announcements this year was the introduction of Azure Arc at Ignite. But is this really a game-changer or is Microsoft just falling for the multicloud buzz?
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 12/23/2019
Microsoft on Thursday announced a preview of remote authentications into Windows-based Azure virtual machines (VMs) using Azure AD credentials.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a "limited preview" release of Microsoft Teams for certain Linux desktop operating systems.
A comparison of SQL Server's throughput performance on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives the edge to Microsoft's cloud.
Microsoft on Thursday announced a preview of a new "Cloud Provisioning" feature for the Azure Active Directory Connect service that promises to bring together scattered Active Directory "forests."
Microsoft gave notice last week that it's going to drop Alternate Credentials support for authenticating users of its Azure DevOps Services.
Amazon's industry-leading cloud business appears to be developing a new datacenter processor that's at least 20 percent faster than its predecessor.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/02/2019
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that users of the Google identity and access service can use their personal log-in IDs with the Azure Active Directory B2B service to access resources as "guests."
Microsoft on Tuesday announced various developments concerning the use of Kubernetes, an open source container orchestration solution fostered by Google.
The next few years are going to be lively ones for the datacenter, according to research firm IDC's "Futurescape" report.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/18/2019
Salesforce.com and Microsoft on Thursday announced a strategic partnership on cloud technology use.
Microsoft on Monday announced a bunch or Azure Active Directory enhancements as part of its Ignite event happenings.
Microsoft on Tuesday released more information about Azure Arc, the hybrid cloud and infrastructure toolkit it announced during the opening keynote of its Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, Fla.
In many ways, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered a very typical Ignite opening keynote -- with a few notable exceptions.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella described the new boundaries Microsoft is breaking in its Azure cloud.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 11/04/2019
Microsoft announced on Monday that it bought Mover to help organizations migrate data and shift to using Microsoft 365 services.
SAP, a major player in the enterprise application software space, is partnering with Microsoft to entice more customers to move their on-premises implementations to the Azure cloud.
Issues affecting the Azure Active Directory service blocked customers from accessing applications early on the morning of Oct. 18 for about 2.5 hours.
Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud on Wednesday described an Open Application Model (OAM) for Web applications.
Does the rise of the public cloud mean the end of the enterprise datacenter? That's an oversimplification of a complex issue, according to one CEO whose company specializes in hyperscale, modular datacenters.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/16/2019