Microsoft’s strategy for helping its customers use one of the more exciting developments in cloud computing — serverless technologies — continues to evolve, and the company is ready to expand… Read More
Security fears have been associated with cloud computing ever since it began, and for the most part those fears have been unfounded: the big cloud providers are way better at… Read More
Almost one year after Microsoft and Adobe announced the start of a sweeping partnership, the two companies are teaming up again, this time to promote each other’s e-signature and cloud… Read More
Microsoft and Red Hat are expanding the parameters of a relationship first struck in 2015, bringing Microsoft Azure and SQL Server closer to Red Hat’s container orchestration product as the… Read More
Microsoft extended its existing partnership with HashiCorp Monday to deepen links between its Terraform product, which lets software developers use the same tools across multiple clouds or hybrid cloud deployments,… Read More
Microsoft is making a big bet on serverless technologies this year, and it continued that push Wednesday with the release of Azure Event Grid, a new service for managing serverless… Read More
Microsoft’s cloud business is making two notable moves involving containers Wednesday — unveiling a new service that aims to make it much easier to get up and running with containers,… Read More
When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google. How do they stack up against each… Read More
Microsoft made another Azure acquisition Thursday, adding Israel’s Cloudyn and its cloud monitoring and analytics tools to the Azure team. Cloudyn’s tools help customers understand how much they are spending… Read More
Microsoft and Box will be working together a little more closely after signing a partnership agreement to promote each other’s cloud services. The deal will see Box customers having the… Read More
Microsoft plans to open two new data centers in South Africa next year to provide its cloud services to the continent, one of the first major cloud providers to set… Read More
Microsoft used one of its biggest events of the year to remind developers that edge computing is coming, and it’s going to change everything all over again. “Data has gravity,… Read More
Microsoft plans to strengthen its database pitch to cloud customers Wednesday at Microsoft Build by unveiling Azure Cosmos DB, a new database built with latency and throughput in mind and… Read More
Microsoft Azure appears to have scored a high-profile customer: Harvard University’s prestigious CS50 computer science class, not that anybody wants to talk about it. A now-deleted web page on Microsoft’s… Read More
The Nature Conservancy is teaming up with Microsoft to bring machine learning and other tech innovations to the environmental group’s online mapping tools. The interactive maps are used for numerous… Read More
Microsoft is a huge multinational technology company, with lines of business spread across PCs, productivity software, gaming, internet search, and more. But after its third fiscal quarter earnings report came… Read More
Each year, as part of the GeekWire Awards, we recognize game-changing technologies in the category of Innovation of the Year. Last year’s winner was a University of Washington project that… Read More
A comment today by Google’s top cloud executive, taking a subtle jab at Amazon Web Services, isn’t sitting well with Microsoft for a different reason. With last week’s Amazon Web Services outage still… Read More
At the Google Cloud Next conference, eBay introduced a new personal shopping chatbot, or “shopbot,” for the Google Home speaker that can tell people how much their possessions could be… Read More
The digital snow day is over, as Amazon Web Services has fixed the issues with its Simple Storage Service, or S3 for short, that crippled significant chunks of the internet… Read More
Microsoft is making the next move in the cloud industry’s rapid global expansion with the news today that its Azure cloud platform is now generally available from two new regions in South… Read More
Flipkart, the top online marketplace in India, has agreed to adopt Microsoft Azure as its exclusive public cloud platform, augmenting its own data centers with the Redmond company’s technologies as it tries… Read More
Microsoft is partnering with Ping Identity, a privately held, Denver-based firm, to provide cloud-based secure access to some on-premises web applications, Microsoft today. Ping Identity’s PingAccess product, which is designed to… Read More
Cloud technology is one of the most dynamic, rapidly growing and important areas of the tech industry, and GeekWire has a front-row seat for the revolution. Our hometown of Seattle… Read More
Last month marked a big milestone for Democracy Live, a technology firm based in Snoqualmie, Wash., which presented its voting technology to several United Nations countries in New York City. The company shared its insights… Read More
Microsoft said today that it will make its Power BI Embedded Azure service generally available on Monday. The service lets independent software vendors (ISVs) more easily create and manage large data-centric applications… Read More
FreeBSD, a popular open-source Unix operating system with roots stretching back to the 1970s, is now available through the Azure Marketplace as a virtual-machine image for Azure, according to an Azure blog post. Making version… Read More
Microsoft is expanding its global data center footprint, seeking to get its Azure cloud platform closer to customers around the world — and important issue for speed and, in some… Read More
Soon the “Internet of Things” will be keeping watch on jet engines, refrigerators and freezers, factory floors and more, thanks to a series of partnerships announced by Microsoft at the Hannover… Read More
In recent years, the clearest way to improve a sports team’s performance has been to gather more data about each player, using stats and numbers to provide a more complete picture… Read More