Microsoft has plans to expand its datacenter capacity for delivering services in both the United Kingdom and Germany, per announcements made this week.
Microsoft on Monday announced that it is in the process of acquiring Israeli-based security firm Secure Islands Technology, Ltd.
Microsoft rolled out a preview this week of a new synchronization-checking capability in its Azure Active Directory Connect Health solution.
Microsoft released a preview of its Azure Resource Health service last week.
Joseph Sirosh, Microsoft's new Data Group head, today announced a new CTP of SQL Server 2016, along with a preview of Azure Data Lake Store and Analytics services and a preview of Azure SQL Database In-Memory OLTP and Operational Analytics.
Microsoft today announced two new Azure Active Directory PowerShell module capabilities available at the preview testing stage.
Microsoft this week rolled out new previews for organizations using its Azure Active Directory services.
Microsoft this week announced that its Azure Backup service now can back up Hyper-V virtual machines, as well as more server workloads.
The company that made server virtualization popular is now targeting DevOps with cloud-native containers built on vSphere.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/07/2015
Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 introduces major changes to Active Directory including LDAP v3 authentication via AD FS and sign-on support using biometrics, OpenIDConnect and OAuth.
How to link Active Directory on-premises with Microsoft Azure AD using Redmond's new connector.
- By John O'Neill Sr.
- 10/02/2015
Microsoft and Box are betting that their marriage of convenience will benefit their efforts to grow their enterprise ECM and collaboration market shares.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/02/2015
Microsoft announced a number of new Azure services as part of its AzureCon Web event on Tuesday.
Microsoft wants to bring Active Directory users to Azure AD, but rivals vie to manage enterprise user authentication in the cloud age with alternative offerings.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/29/2015
Microsoft quietly delivered a media bombshell of sorts this week as it explained that its Azure Cloud Switch solution was built with Linux.
Satya Nadella may have fallen short of convincing Marc Benioff to sell Salesforce.com to Microsoft earlier this year but the two rivals are extending their year-and-a-half-old strategic partnership.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/17/2015
Expert James Staten explains why some organizations using cloud services may benefit from private Internet connections.
The deal looks to strengthen online protection of data across Microsoft's cloud services.
Microsoft today announced a GS-Series for organizations tapping Azure virtual machines (VMs).
The first hint of the new project comes from a job listing posted by the company.