IT is moving toward the cloud and virtualization, but don't write off hardware -- especially for highly critical systems. Here's a look at the newest generation of database hardware and how it impacts performance.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 02/05/2019
Microsoft plans to change the default Office 365 document-saving behavior and have it default to OneDrive and OneDrive for Business folder locations, starting as early as next month.
Microsoft added a preview feature to its Azure Active Directory Business to Business (B2B) service that makes it easier for business partners to gain access to an organization's network resources.
IDC this month published findings on revenues from cloud IT infrastructure spending in the third quarter of 2018, based on server, storage and Ethernet switch sales.
Microsoft will have a new approach for organizations buying Azure services called the "Microsoft Customer Agreement," which will be available for some customers starting as early as this March.
From guessing the fate of Windows 10 S to predicting Microsoft's next big move with Linux, Brien's predictions from a year ago were on the mark more than they weren't.
Microsoft this week highlighted some emerging efforts to improve both the scalability and governance of the open source Kubernetes container orchestration service.
Microsoft gave notice earlier this month that it will be ending its Azure Container Service on Jan. 31, 2020.
Microsoft and Docker on Tuesday announced a new specification and a new tool for organizations and developers managing distributed applications.
The cloud giant just delivered some big news to datacenter managers watching the rapidly evolving Arm processor market.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/28/2018
Microsoft is planning to expand the availability of its new "account manager" multiple sign-in capability, which will be available across various Microsoft online services sometime next year.
Microsoft apparently has addressed an Azure multifactor authentication (MFA) service outage for the second time in as many weeks.
The datacenter of 2020 and beyond will look quite different from the datacenter of today, according to researchers at IDC.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/09/2018
Microsoft announced some SQL Server-associated news as part of the PASS Summit event for database administrators and developers, which is ongoing this week.
Microsoft now permits Azure Active Directory licensing to be assigned based on groups within an organization.
A Microsoft expert offered his views on using "third-party" multicloud management solutions, and generally downplayed the use of multiple clouds as a strategy for organizations.
Microsoft made a few notable Azure announcements this week, including an Azure Availability Zones expansion, plus ExpressRoute support for the Azure DevOps service.
The public preview of Azure Digital Twins was released this week, according to a Microsoft announcement.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a public preview of Azure confidential computing, which previously had been at the more restricted "Early Access" preview stage about a year ago.
Microsoft indicated on Thursday that its Azure Active Directory B2C service wasn't affected by the Facebook hack last month that potentially exposed the access tokens of about 50 million Facebook users.