Jeffrey Schwartz

Now that Microsoft's new hybrid cloud appliances bring Azure functionality on-premises and to services providers, here's what you need to know. Now that the first Azure Stack appliances are available, any organization or services provider can run …

Microsoft has released the technical preview of IoT Central, the company's SaaS offering designed to let organizations roll out IoT-based solutions with minimal configuration or knowledge of the complexities of integrating operational systems with …

UX features introduced with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update include Microsoft's new Fluent Design, mixed reality, Android Launcher, and a video editing tool, plus mobile and multiplatform versions of Edge. While the latest Windows 10 Fall …

Microsoft has touted how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are solving many problems. Now Redmond and IT security providers are applying AI in cyberthreat detection. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have existed in …

The Box collaboration and enterprise content management (ECM) service is now available in Microsoft's Azure public cloud, marking the latest integration points between the two companies in recent years. Box and Microsoft, which are also competitors …

Microsoft is adding MariaDB to the list of open source relational database platforms it will bring to Azure. MariaDB will join MySQL and PostgreSQL, announced earlier this year and now available in preview mode, in Azure. In addition to adding it to …

Microsoft and Apache Spark creator Databricks are building a globally distributed streaming analytics service natively integrated with Azure for machine learning, graph processing and AI-based applications. The new Datrabricks Spark as a service was …

A refreshed technology portfolio and roadmap revealed at Ignite suggests Satya Nadella's hybrid cloud, modern workspace management and intelligent communications vision is blooming. Focus and vision. If there's a simple way to describe what Satya …

More than half of large enterprises that have implemented Cloud Foundry as their application runtime, orchestration and DevOps environment for business modernization projects are using it across multiple clouds, according to a results of a survey …

Nearly two months after Equifax revealed perhaps the worst breach of consumer data to date, more revelations of incompetence emerge, and yet the only ones who pay the price are the customers. Nearly two months after Equifax revealed perhaps the worst …

The new service aims to make Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) more appealing than ever. A secret project that resulted in the development of what is now known as System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) began 25 years ago, an anniversary …

Microsoft is readying a new lightweight database development and management tool that aims to give DBAs and developers common DevOps tooling to manage Microsoft's various on-premises and cloud database offerings. The new Microsoft SQL Operations …

A version of the Microsoft 365 service for small- and mid-size organizations with up to 300 users is now generally available. Microsoft 365 Business, released today, is the last of four versions of the new service announced in July that brings …

Microsoft on Thursday reported $24.5 billion in revenues for its first FY18 quarter, more than $1 billion higher than analysts had forecast. The big news from Thursday's earnings release is that Microsoft's commercial cloud revenue surged to $5 …

If existing high-performance computing (HPC) isn't enough for you, Microsoft is bringing the supercomputing capabilities provided by Cray to its Azure public cloud. This is a noteworthy deal because Cray has been regarded for decades as the leading …

Few businesses leaders have been more outspoken than Microsoft President Brad Smith, backed by his boss CEO Satya Nadella, himself an immigrant, about Trump's move to end DACA. Business leaders across industries have taken the fight against President …

Nearly a year after rolling out its Azure Functions serverless compute option for running event-driven, modern PaaS apps and services, Microsoft has given it a cross-platform boost. The company announced it had ported the Azure Functions service to …

If there was any hope that Microsoft had any plans to come out with any new phones based on Windows 10 Mobile, or add new features to that version of the OS this year, HP and Microsoft both appear to have dashed them. The chatter about the …

Now that using multiple devices, apps and OSes is ubiquitous in the workplace, new unified endpoint management tools are introducing a common approach to configuration, security and administration. Capital One Financial Corp. wants to empower its …

Amazon Web Services yesterday announced that it is the "preferred cloud provider" for General Electric, one of the world's largest industrial conglomerates. However, what was not stated in the announcement is that it only pertains to GE's internal IT …