Jeffrey Schwartz

Will Azure Stack appliances become pervasive in datacenters and develop a considerable global footprint in existing hosting facilities? After years of priming the pump for Azure Stack, the first systems that extend Microsoft's public cloud to …

Microsoft and Box hit another milestone in their partnership recently with the availability of the Box collaboration and enterprise content management (ECM) service on Microsoft's Azure public cloud. Announced last week, the move allows Box customers …

In a bid to fill a void in its security portfolio, McAfee on Monday announced its plan to acquire leading cloud access security broker (CASB) Skyhigh Networks for an undisclosed amount. By acquiring one of the industry's best-regarded CASB providers, …

Microsoft this week unveiled a new service that integrates its Azure platform with a globally distributed streaming analytics solution. Now available in preview, Azure Databricks is designed to help app users and developers take advantage of machine …

After a three-month beta period, the Business edition of Microsoft 365 is now ready for production use. Microsoft 365 Business is part of the new Microsoft 365 suite that Microsoft announced in July's Inspire partner conference. An overhaul of the …

A newly refocused Cloud Solution Provider program is giving partners hope for better relationships with Microsoft field reps. Microsoft wants to drive more Azure consumption. Considering revenue growth has practically doubled every quarter for some …

Microsoft's new fiscal year got off to a much better start than expected, with the company reporting $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 …

Google is partnering with Cisco on a hybrid cloud effort that will enable workloads to run on Cisco's UCS hyperconverged infrastructure hardware and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The partnership, announced Wednesday, is aimed at enticing more …

Microsoft has opened the door for enterprises and service providers to run Azure Stack at much greater scale. The company has certified Azure Stack to run on systems powered by Intel's next-generation Xeon Scalable Processors, code-named "Purley," …

A strategic partnership announced Monday between Microsoft and Cray will bring the latter's supercomputing capabilities to the Azure public cloud. Cray has been regarded for decades as the leading provider of supercomputing systems, capable of …

Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off the new Surface Book 2, in addition to announcing the general availability of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (previously code-named "Redstone 3"). The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update comes with a raft of …

An Azure-native enterprise version of NetApp's Network File System (NFS) will be ready for public preview in early 2018, part of an ongoing partnership between Microsoft and NetApp. The two companies have previously collaborated to let enterprises …

Microsoft this week unveiled Bing for Business, a new deliverable that will put Bing at the center of Microsoft's enterprise search and artificial intelligence efforts. Bing for Business is a product of Microsoft's 1-year-old AI research group. Led …

The first Azure Stack appliances are now shipping from OEMs like Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo, Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference on Monday. First unveiled at the 2015 Ignite event, Azure Stack is the cornerstone of …

Veritas is extending its integration with Microsoft Azure as part of an effort to provide more support for hybrid and public clouds in its portfolio. The company announced its intent to deepen its ties with Azure at its annual Veritas Vision customer …

In a move that combines two major providers of managed hosting and cloud services, Rackspace this week announced it is acquiring rival Datapipe in its biggest acquisition to date. San Antonio, Texas-based Rackspace has 12 datacenters worldwide, while …

VMware now lets organizations connect Windows 10 PCs to their enterprise networks using its AirWatch mobile device management (MDM) system. Users of AirWatch, an integral component of VMware's Workspace One platform, can now enroll their Windows 10 …

VMware kicked off its annual VMworld conference this week with a multicloud vision that's nevertheless heavy on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company launched numerous new offerings during Monday's opening keynote, but the announcement that drew the …

Microsoft on Wednesday launched a technical preview of a new service called Azure Event Grid, touting it as the next piece of its serverless computing platform. Azure Event Grid is aimed at developers who are increasingly building event-based, …

Microsoft on Tuesday announced its acquisition of Cycle Computing, a provider of solutions for managing large workloads in the public cloud, as well as in hybrid and on-premises datacenter infrastructures. Founded in 2005, Cycle Computing built its …