Microsoft can't do it alone, and at the heart of the initiative are new acquisition and partnerships.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/29/2016
Microsoft's Business to Consumer (B2C) Azure Active Directory service is now commercially available in North American markets.
Implementing Microsoft's new StorSimple Virtual Array offers a more practical and affordable approach to using Microsoft Azure as a cloud-based target for backup and disaster recovery.
- By Paul Ferrill
- 07/27/2016
Microsoft is unifying the code base used for its two client authentication solutions, with changes expected to show up next month.
The move to protect data in the cloud is rising incrementally, and while there are numerous services provider options, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are key choices.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/26/2016
Microsoft announced today that its Azure Security Center service has reached "general availability" commercial release.
Even though cloud technology is drastically altering how IT does its job, there will still be a need for tech pros in the modern enterprise.
Microsoft on Tuesday at the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto announced Windows 10 Enterprise E3 in CSP [Cloud Service Provider] and Surface as a Service programs.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/13/2016
Microsoft said that despite initially being penned for release later this year, the company's Azure Stack won't arrive until sometime in 2017.
Microsoft today announced that its elastic cloud computing platform Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available.
Microsoft has added greater flexibility to its role-based access controls for IT pros using the Azure Active Directory service.
SharePoint gave rise to the citizen developer a decade ago but the evolution of SaaS including Office 365 and the latest tooling such as Microsoft PowerApps and Flow are empowering a larger community.
- By Christian Buckley
- 06/29/2016
Microsoft today announced Azure Active Directory Conditional Access support for Exchange Online and SharePoint Online services, which is now at the preview stage.
Microsoft unveiled a new information protection service that will get commercially released sometime later this year.
Microsoft this month released Office 365 update 1602 "deferred channel," which includes new features for Office applications, as well as security updates.
Microsoft released a new F-Series of Azure Virtual Machines this month.
Microsoft published its FreeBSD 10.3 server image in the Azure Marketplace this week, representing yet another open source milestone for the company.
Microsoft commercially released its Azure Active Directory Enterprise State Roaming service for Windows 10 clients this week.
Microsoft today answered a few questions about how its legal team looks at data privacy issues for its cloud services customers.
How to configure and administer Windows Server 2016, including the Nano configuration, with Microsoft's forthcoming Azure-based Remote Server Management Tools option.
- By Paul Ferrill
- 06/03/2016