Azure Crash Blamed on Expired SSL Certificate Mark Hachman, February 25, 2013 3 min read Windows Azure fizzled Feb. 22, as a worldwide outage affected the compute resources for several regions. The reason? An...
Microsoft Earnings Hint at Major Challenges Ahead Nick Kolakowski, January 25, 2013 4 min read Some of Microsoft’s key revenue drivers—namely its business and entertainment divisions—experienced notable...
Microsoft BUILD Day Two Highlights Azure, Windows 8 Nick Kolakowski, October 31, 2012 3 min read Microsoft is hosting BUILD in a giant tent. Microsoft has spent Day 2 of its BUILD developer conference...
Windows Azure Finds Ultimate Use: “Halo 4” Nick Kolakowski, October 31, 2012 3 min read Master Chief ponders the mysteries of universe. Master Chief, a personality-free but deadly efficient...
Microsoft, Hortonworks Push Apache Hadoop for Azure, Windows Server Nick Kolakowski, October 24, 2012 3 min read In February 2012, Hortonworks announced it was working with Microsoft to streamline the use of Apache Hadoop in Windows...
Google’s Cloud Platform Partner Program Could Benefit Analytics Firms Nick Kolakowski, July 25, 2012 3 min read Google's BigQuery is a part of its Cloud Platform Partner Program. Google has become the latest IT vendor to offer...
Apple iCloud, Amazon Cloud Top Developer List: Appcelerator, IDC Nick Kolakowski, July 25, 2012 3 min read A new survey by Appcelerator and research firm IDC suggests that developers continue to embrace the cloud as an...
Microsoft Transforms Windows Server Into Cloud Host Nick Kolakowski, July 11, 2012 2 min read If anyone had any doubts that Microsoft views Amazon as a potential threat to its cloud strategy—or at the very...
Microsoft Needs to Play Its Own Game in the Cloud JD Marymee, June 25, 2012 4 min read The latest round of Azure announcements didn’t take anyone by surprise. If anything, most cloud folks with an...
Microsoft’s Azure, Windows Server 2012 Push Cloud Infrastructure Nick Kolakowski, June 11, 2012 4 min read For some time, Microsoft has pushed an “all in” cloud strategy, one in which its newest generations of products...
