It’s become pretty clear this year that cloud vendors have decided that the hybrid cloud is here to stay, and Microsoft will roll out several new products at Ignite 2018… Read More
Microsoft’s emphasis on the industrial internet of things this year has produced a new service that will let customers create digital models of physical spaces, which the company thinks will… Read More
Despite the fact that cloud vendors are very good at security, and your average IT department is not, worries about security have long plagued those trying to advance the state… Read More
One of the most fundamental aspects of computing infrastructure will play a key role in Microsoft’s Ignite 2018 pitch to developers and customers, with several new database features competing for… Read More
A severe lightning storm in the San Antonio area last week not only disrupted the power supply to Microsoft Azure’s data center in the region, it knocked the cooling systems… Read More
A series of failures at Microsoft’s San Antonio data centers continued to cause issues for some customers stretching into the second day back from the holiday weekend, although it seems… Read More
Some Microsoft Azure customers with workloads running in its South Central US data center are having big problems coming back from the holiday weekend Tuesday, after shutdown procedures were initiated… Read More
As the federal government reviews submissions from cloud computing companies for the $10 billion Department of Defense cloud contract, Microsoft announced Monday that Azure Stack is now generally available for… Read More
If you’ve ever happened upon a conventional data center, you were probably underwhelmed: most resemble a supersized Wal-Mart with acres of nothingness surrounding them. Microsoft’s Project Natick is a very… Read More
Microsoft was dragged into the debate Thursday over what tech companies should do about white supremacist content providers using their services. After receiving a complaint about violent, graphic anti-Semitic content… Read More
For technologies that have been billed as the future of payments, it’s really hard to actually use digital currencies like Bitcoin or Etherium to buy things in the real world.… Read More
Is Amazon Web Services going to be the Google of cloud computing? About 15 years ago, Google’s search technology catapulted it ahead of other search engines into a place atop… Read More
Microsoft’s cloud division remains one of the primary architects of its comeback in recent years, posting a 23 percent jump in revenue during the fourth quarter of its 2018 fiscal… Read More
When Microsoft shuffled the deck of cards that makes up its Azure cloud computing division a few months ago, it appears to have created a new hardware group that attracted… Read More
Visiting Las Vegas in the middle of July seems like a questionable idea, but thousands of Microsoft partners will descend upon the desert next week to hear about a few… Read More
After establishing a foothold in the cloud-based data warehousing market on the infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services, Snowflake Computing is expected to announce Thursday that its customers will now… Read More
Now that the basic appeal of cloud computing has been established — compute and storage resources managed by your vendor instead of your employees — those cloud vendors are looking… Read More
Visual strategist Guillaume Wiatr has become a mainstay at GeekWire conferences, partnering with us to sketch out drawings and notes based on the talks, panels and fireside chats as they’re… Read More
Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene was interested in buying GitHub, but she isn’t ready to buy Microsoft’s promise to keep the popular software development platform neutral. Addressing Microsoft’s GitHub deal… Read More
Microsoft rolled out several new Azure services Wednesday at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, making a key part of its edge computing strategy generally available and expanding its presence in… Read More
Microsoft Azure Executive Vice President Jason Zander has worked for many different companies, despite the fact that he’s worked at Microsoft his entire career. He started working for Microsoft in… Read More
It’s probably the central question surrounding Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of coding repository GitHub: how will the owner of the world’s second-leading cloud infrastructure service treat GitHub users who prefer… Read More
Post updated on Monday morning, after Microsoft announced its agreement to acquire GitHub. Microsoft has long understood the power that comes from having a massive amount of developers on your… Read More
Cloud companies lining up to bid on a ten-year cloud contract for the U.S. Department of Defense will have to wait a little bit longer to learn exactly what the… Read More
Among the emerging technologies of our time, blockchain technology has somehow been the recipient of both the most hype and the most disdain, thanks to the excitement around cryptocurrencies and… Read More
Thanks to investments in container technology and microservices, Sabre is ready to embark on a multicloud infrastructure strategy, signing a “strategic agreement” with Microsoft Azure the same month it inked… Read More
While the largest cloud computing contract in the history of the industry waits in the wings, Microsoft was awarded a deal with several U.S. government agencies for its Azure and… Read More
Many of the advances in cloud computing over the past decade were about getting the people out of the way, automating the drudgery of running data centers with outsourced services… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Atul Ajoy is a 10th grader at Redmond High School, a tech enthusiast, startup founder, blogger and event organizer. He attended Microsoft Build in Seattle this week for the second year in a row,… Read More
Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB database was probably the most important thing it announced last year at Build, its annual conference for developers. A year later, Azure Cosmos DB is on… Read More