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
Build 2018 attendees got a peek behind the Azure curtain Wednesday from Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich, who also announced that new security technologies from Intel are now available… Read More
One day after Microsoft announced that its managed Kubernetes service is ready for the general public, Red Hat announced that its OpenShift managed Kubernetes service will soon be available on… Read More
Microsoft is bringing Kinect back this week at its Build developer conference, but in a very different fashion that the Xbox accessory from a few years back. The company plans… Read More
Cloud computing has been a strong part of Microsoft’s turnaround during CEO Satya Nadella’s tenure as CEO, and its Intelligent Cloud group picked up the growth pace slightly in its… Read More
When is a container serverless? That question might sound like troll bait for infrastructure geeks, but Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances, now generally available, is a blend of two prominent trends… Read More
The first availability zones within Microsoft Azure’s cloud computing regions are coming online for everyone Friday, bringing additional reliability and backup options for customers running applications in its Iowa and… Read More
Microsoft’s cloud business is the company’s economic engine these days, hitting aggressive revenue targets earlier than expected with plenty of room to grow. The group tasked with carrying out that… Read More
Microsoft is ready to talk about Windows Server 2019, the first fully-featured release of its server operating system since Windows Server 2016, which is due out later this year. Like… Read More
Microsoft announced plans for its first cloud data centers in the Middle East Wednesday, hoping to bring capacity online in that region in the near future. There will be two… Read More
The Department of Defense is planning to have a cloud bake-off this year, soliciting proposals from the tech industry to build a next-generation cloud infrastructure project that would bring the… Read More
There’s no longer any point in ignoring the truth: during the age of open-source software, which was supposed to democratize software development and usher in a new era of community-driven… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella trotted out many of his usual lines during an interview this morning, but, unprompted, also chose to address an area he usually doesn’t talk about: silicon.… Read More
Microsoft and Chinese electronics company Xiaomi agreed to a new strategic partnership focused on artificial and cloud technology, further cementing the relationship between the two tech giants. Xiaomi says it… Read More
Microsoft Azure is seeing demand for cloud-based blockchain services, Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie said Friday, but it doesn’t sound like the company’s cloud computing division will be changing its… Read More
A key part of Microsoft’s strategy for serverless computing is ready for prime time. Azure Event Grid, first announced last August, is now generally available, Microsoft is expected to announce… Read More
2018 greeted CIOs around the planet in quite rude fashion, following the revelation of two 20-year-old undiscovered security flaws in the chips that run their clouds and data centers last… Read More
Cloud users and data center managers began to understand the performance effects of the patches required by the Meltdown/Spectre chip vulnerabilities over the weekend. While it seems initial fears of… Read More
Update 5:30pm: Intel held a press conference Wednesday afternoon after this was published, and several researchers released a lot more details about these issues. That story is here. The companies… Read More
Microsoft Azure customers interested in parsing large amounts of data to improve their businesses will soon be able to use Azure Databricks, developed in consultation with big data startup Databricks… Read More
As the technology leader for the second-place cloud computing vendor, Microsoft’s Mark Russinovich has a keen interest in finding ways for companies that have invested in Amazon Web Services or… Read More
The company that operates Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing business in China is planning a huge increase in capacity heading into next year, CEO Satya Nadella announced Wednesday at an event… Read More
Microsoft plans to step up its support for Kubernetes, announcing plans Tuesday for a new managed Kubernetes service that promises to make the notoriously tricky container-orchestration software easier — and… Read More
Microsoft Azure cloud computing customers that would like to tap into true supercomputing power have a new option thanks to an exclusive partnership between Cray and Microsoft, the companies announced… Read More
More and more government agencies are realizing the benefits of cloud computing, and Microsoft is poised to unveil several new updates to its cloud services for government customers Tuesday at… Read More
After his recent trip to the West Coast to check out how cloud tech companies are fending off cybersecurity attacks, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis plans to increase the… Read More
Outage reports issued by most cloud companies tend to be meaningless exercises in brevity, designed by lawyers and put into prose by engineers rarely interested in explaining exactly what happened.… Read More
An old tongue-in-cheek journalism canard suggests that once something has happened three times, it’s a trend. Along those lines, when something happens a dozen times or more, it’s a movement.… Read More
The top four major public cloud vendors all grew faster than the overall market last year, according to a new market share assessment released by Gartner Wednesday, and the overall… Read More
Software developers stuck with a thorny programming problem now have a new option when browsing Stack Overflow: a chatbot built using Microsoft’s artificial intelligence technology. Introduced during a session at… Read More