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
Microsoft this week announced a couple of noteworthy previews of new capabilities for IT pros using the Azure Active Directory identity and access management service.
Pivotal Software and Microsoft introduced a private preview of Azure Spring Cloud on Tuesday.
The cloud has long been touted as the future of computing. But for some organizations, cloud computing has only added more complexity and not enough cost-savings.
Azure Sentinel, Microsoft's cloud-based security information and event management (SIEM) solution, has reached the "general availability" release stage.
Microsoft recently announced a bunch of tooling updates for organizations using Office 365 and Azure solutions.
At OpenWorld this week, CEO Larry Ellison described Oracle's plan to open an average of one region every 23 days over the next 15 months.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/20/2019
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of Azure Private Link, an option for keeping Azure service connections off the public Internet.
Microsoft's portfolio of PaaS databases has grown way beyond Azure SQL. Here are its most important cloud-based database services, and exactly how each one works differently from the other.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 09/16/2019
Microsoft is working with satellite partner companies to extend Azure ExpressRoute's private Internet connections to organizations with operations in isolated regions.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the acquisition of partner company Movere.
Google's Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory offering is now at the beta-test release stage, according to a Thursday company announcement.
Google, in conjunction with Dell, announced this week that "the first Chromebook Enterprise devices" had arrived.
Microsoft announced a number of Azure Active Directory enhancements this month.
A new Confidential Computing Consortium was announced on Wednesday by the Linux Foundation to boost the security of processed data.
In a bid to support its "continued contributions to open source while driving increased performance for Java workloads on Azure," Microsoft on Monday announced its acquisition of jClarity.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/19/2019
Billed by Microsoft as an all-encompassing API, the Microsoft Graph plays a critical role in how developers access Microsoft's various cloud resources.
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it now offers the Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive (SSD) storage service commercially, or at the "general availability" stage, in a few Azure regions.
Exactly where does Microsoft cap the amount of OneDrive storage space you can give each user? As Brien explains, it depends.
Microsoft has announced a preview of a new service that gives organizations access to unshared or "dedicated" Azure hardware infrastructure for hosting their workloads on Azure virtual machines.