Microsoft and Google are engaged in a pitched battle to win over your business with suites of cloud-based productivity software and services. Here’s a look at the many different editions of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, along with what you can expect to pay for each one. Both Microsoft and Google would like to be … Read more
Four years after the launch of G Suite, Google is updating its productivity and collaboration app portfolio with new features, branding and a premium business payment plan. Google’s G Suite is getting a new name — Workspace — as the company looks to position the software as a hub for remote teamwork and tolls out several feature upgrades … Read more
New Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp features simplify access to multi-cloud services and provide better security and lower latency. Cisco has further broadened the cloud-integration options available to its SD-WAN customers with new connectivity options to AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud services. With these additions, Cisco’s goal is to ensure cloud-destined traffic gets into the cloud network faster, … Read more
As enterprises ramp up edge computing deployments, the big three clouds are ponying up a surprising array of edge options for a broad range of needs. It might surprise you to learn that the big three public clouds – AWS, Google Could Platform, and Microsoft Azure – are all starting to provide edge computing capabilities. It’s puzzling, … Read more
Initiative to trademark projects aims to stop public cloud providers from offering their own managed service version of open source code. The decision to protect open source project trademarks comes after a number of highly successful projects were affected by public cloud providers undercutting the revenue stream of the project maintainers by offering managed services. … Read more
Blink and you might miss it, but Microsoft is little by little reshaping Google’s mobile ecosystem for the better — and all signs suggest it’s only getting started. I’m starting to feel like a broken record here, but man: Microsoft really is shaping up to be one of the most interesting forces in the Android … Read more
Has Docs caught up to Word as an enterprise productivity application? We compare the two word processors to see which wins in today’s online environment. Have you been thinking of reassessing which word processor your business should standardize on? The obvious choices are the two best known: Microsoft Word and Google Docs. But which is … Read more
Several big-name vendors, including Microsoft, Google, Cisco and LogMeIn, are making some of their chat and video-conferencing services free as demand for remote working booms. Major collaboration and video conferencing software vendors are now offering products to users at no extra cost in response to the spread of the coronavirus. Concerns about the COVID-19 virus … Read more
The top cloud providers for 2019 have maintained their positions, but the themes, strategies, and approaches to the market are all in flux. The infrastructure-as-a-service wars have been largely decided, with the spoils going to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, but new technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning have … Read more
Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) has been added to the Kubernetes managed services that natively integrate with the Cisco Container Platform. Cisco seeks to enhance container deployment with a service to let enterprise customers run containerized applications across both Cisco-based on-premises environments and in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Customers can now further simplify deploying and … Read more
