This past month, Microsoft released a public preview of Azure Stack, which I downloaded, fiddled with, and put together this blog post to share what this thing is all about. As with all my blog posts, ...

Here's a look at how the cloud leaders stack up, the hybrid market, and the SaaS players that run your company as well as their latest strategic moves. Microsoft also is working on an ...

Microsoft’s release of Azure Stack, an on-premises version of its public cloud, could be important for networking and data center pros for one simple reason: It gives customers a way to use a popular ...

The latest Microsoft cloud disruption did not just knock a few corporate dashboards offline, it exposed how much of the ...

Microsoft announced Azure Stack at its Ignite event in September 2016 and soft-launched Azure Stack at its Inspire event in July, when it announced that the private cloud solution was available for ...

Microsoft’s cloud strategy has long focused on the kind of hybrid cloud deployments that allow enterprises to run workloads in a public cloud like Azure and in their own data centers. Azure Stack, its ...

Microsoft’s Inspire conference announcements included two significant items related to its Azure cloud computing business. The biggest was the announcement that the Azure Stack offering for private ...

Microsoft plans to make its Azure Stack hybrid cloud operating platform available in mid-2017 and in appliance form with a few server vendors only. Microsoft is working with HPE, Dell, and Lenovo on ...

Just ahead of the Game Developers Conference, Microsoft announced that its new Microsoft Game Stack will bundle all of the tools and services that game developers need to make games, whether they are ...

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Data about other data sources is stored in SSAS so that it can be accessed and analyzed as quickly as possible in the SQL Server BI Stack. the Analysis Service provided by Microsoft SQL Server, a ...

Microsoft released quality improvements to the servicing stack for all Windows 10 versions, the component designed to allow users to receive and install Windows updates. Microsoft states that this ...