There's room for more than just business software and services under Microsoft's "intelligent cloud" umbrella. Soon, it will cover its gaming assets, too.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 03/26/2018
Microsoft this week announced the commercial availability of Azure Database services for both MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Cloud megavendors like AWS and Microsoft are leading the hyperscale datacenter boom. But legacy workloads mean uncertainty for more average organizations.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/22/2018
Microsoft highlighted some of its work with the Open Compute Project this week, including its latest effort with CNEX Labs to simplify solid-state drive technology used in datacenters.
Azure Traffic Manager now has a couple of new features at the "general availability" stage.
Microsoft announced a couple of Azure Active Directory improvements last week.
Microsoft's cloud DBaaS has had a whirlwind month with the introduction of managed instances, database migration tools and more. Here's what each feature does and when to use it.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 03/19/2018
Microsoft announced this week that its Azure Service Fabric microservices application development platform is moving to an open development process, which will be housed at the GitHub code repository.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced an expansion of its datacenter regions for delivering Microsoft Azure and Office 365 services.
Though it's tempting to think of SharePoint as a Web-based collaboration platform, it's also possible to synchronize the contents of a SharePoint document library to your PC using OneDrive.
Microsoft expanded its Azure Virtual Machine sizes this month with new isolated and GPU offerings.
Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options.
McAfee on Wednesday announced newly available and coming security support for Microsoft Azure services via McAfee Cloud Security Platform products.
Microsoft this week described best practices for identity security when using Azure Active Directory or Windows Server Active Directory Federation Services.
The Azure Migrate tool can now be used by organizations to help plan moves of their on-premises virtual machines and applications to Azure datacenter infrastructure.
The product, now deemed ready for use in production environments, is a cloud-based service for detecting and analyzing security incidents in an organization.
Microsoft has released a solution that converts data stored by StorSimple into a format that can be used with various Azure services.
Also in the tea leaves: The rapid ascendance of hyperscale datacenters the likes of Microsoft, Amazon and Google need to run their massive clouds.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/23/2018
Microsoft this week announced the "general availability" (GA) status of some compliance and information protection tools for use by Microsoft 365 product licensees.
More from Microsoft's lead SQL architect about how telemetry data is helping the company deliver regular, highly requested and targeted feature improvements at a massive scale.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 02/21/2018