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 ...

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 ...

The Microsoft Azure cloud has grown from its early Windows-centric focus into a multi-faceted infrastructure supporting a wide range of services. In addition to providing a complete cloud platform and ...

If Microsoft was serious before about becoming a private- and hybrid-cloud player, it’s twice as serious now. The newly unveiled Azure Stack provides enterprises with the ability to create private ...

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, ...

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 ...

One year ago, Microsoft announced an important weapon in the cloud technology wars: Special software that allowed business customers to create their own mini-clouds, running on their own hardware.

A look at the primary use cases of Microsoft's "hybrid cloud appliance" and how it might fit into your organization’s cloud strategy. In September 2017 Microsoft released Azure Stack, after teasing ...

One of the most sweeping -- and likely, least readily understood -- announcements by Microsoft at its Ignite conference this week will be what it's calling "Azure Arc." Arc is not an acronym; it's the ...