Enterprises will soon have access to Azure Arc and Azure Synapse Analytics, two new services that bolster Microsoft’s cloud offerings. Microsoft’s Ignite event traditionally attracts more from the developer ranks, but the technologies on display are increasingly of relevance to CIOs developing cloud strategies today. At Ignite 2019 in Orlando last week, Microsoft unveiled a … Read more
Microsoft is planning to roll out a major change in the way users will be able to buy Power BI, Power Apps and Flow starting in mid-November. And a number of IT admins are none too pleased. The concept of self-service has been integral to Microsoft’s Power Platform for a while now. But a coming … Read more
A broadened Cisco-Microsoft partnership promises to extend Cisco SD-WAN to the Azure cloud and to optimize and secure connectivity to Office 365. Cisco and Microsoft this week extended their relationship to make it easier and more efficient for SD-WAN customers to set up and run direct Internet access to enterprise applications such as Office 365 and other … Read more
The newly renamed ‘Windows 10 November 2019 Update’ is nearing release. But given the company’s past naming conventions, it might not show up until November. Microsoft now says the year’s second Windows 10 feature upgrade would be released shortly and has given it the guileless name of “Windows 10 November 2019 Update.” “We believe that … Read more
IBM adds Red Hat OpenShift support to its blockchain platform and is bringing a Kubernetes Operator for Apache CouchDB into its hybrid cloud service. IBM continued its Red Hat and open-source integration work this week by adding Red Hat OpenShift support to its blockchain platform and bringing a Kubernetes Operator for Apache CouchDB along side its hybrid-cloud services offering. … Read more
Once again Microsoft shows it has shed its not-invented here attitude to support customers. When Microsoft launched Azure as a cloud-based version of its Windows Server operating system, it didn’t make it exclusively Windows. It also included Linux support, and in just a few years, the number of Linux instances now outnumbers Windows instances. It’s nice … Read more
VMware rolls out Tanzu platform to help customer build, run and manage Kubernetes containers. VMware has announced an initiative that will help make it easier for current vSphere customers to build and manage Kubernetes containers as the platform evolves. The company, at its VMworld customer event, announced VMware Tanzu which is made up of myriad … Read more
VMware will spend $2.7 billion on cloud-application developer Pivotal and $2.1 billion for security vendor Carbon Black – details at next week’s VMworld user conference. All things cloud are major topics of conversation at the VMworld user conference next week, ratcheded up a notch by VMware’s $4.8 billion plans to acquire cloud development firm Pivotal … Read more
Database giant has confirmed it will appeal the US Federal Court’s dismissal of its previous legal challenge over JEDI cloud contract. Oracle is launching another legal action over the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) bid to award a decade-long cloud contract, valued at $10bn, to either Microsoft or Amazon Web Services (AWS). The database software … Read more
IT admins will be able to use the policies to manage, deploy and update the new browser to their corporate workforce. Microsoft has published the template and documentation that will be required to manage updates of the not-yet-finalized “full-Chromium” Edge browser, making good on a promise of earlier this summer. When Microsoft first pounded the Edge-for-enterprise … Read more
