Open source Azure tools were on center stage Wednesday, as Microsoft and some of its open source partners conducted an online presentation aimed at courting developers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 23, 2017
Microsoft's Skype for Business unified communications product is now integrated with the VMware Horizon virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution, VMware said this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 09, 2017
Citrix is developing several new products that will work in conjunction with Microsoft services, including a release of the Citrix Receiver client designed for the forthcoming Windows 10 S operating system.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 24, 2017
VMware this week announced a partnership with Microsoft that would enable VMware's Horizon Cloud Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) infrastructure to be delivered on the Azure public cloud.
- By Keith Ward
- May 18, 2017
Microsoft on Monday announced that it has acquired Deis, a startup that provides training and tools related to Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration system devised by Google.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2017
Microsoft on Tuesday announced new support for Kubernetes, a Google-fostered open source technology, in its Azure Container Service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 22, 2017
Delivering on its promise last year to deepen integration with Microsoft technologies, Citrix on Monday took the wraps off XenDesktop Essentials, its new Windows 10 virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) offering for the Microsoft Azure public cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 09, 2017
Docker for Azure is now available for public testing, Docker announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 13, 2016
Microsoft's Azure Container Service (ACS) Engine is now an open source project hosted on the GitHub repository, Microsoft announced Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2016
Google has expanded its datacenter service offerings to include Windows Server 2016 instances, the search giant announced Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 25, 2016
VMware is enabling support for Microsoft's Skype for Business product in its Horizon 7 virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution, the company said this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 20, 2016
More known for its PC, laptop and server products, Lenovo is making inroads in the digital workspace market dominated by Citrix and VMware.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 18, 2016
Microsoft and Citrix this week laid out the terms of their partnership, including their plan to combine Microsoft's Azure datacenter solutions with Citrix's virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2016
Microsoft is readying a new offer aimed at swaying organizations running VMware to switch to Hyper-V.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2016
Microsoft is in the process of replacing its 2-year-old Azure RemoteApp service for a new solution that it is currently developing with strategic partner Citrix called XenApp "express."
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 12, 2016
Microsoft recently took the wraps off its new Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) F-Series, aimed at organizations running "gaming servers, Web servers and batch processing."
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 15, 2016
Microsoft recently put the spotlight on Shielded Virtual Machines (VMs), its datacenter security technology aimed at protecting workloads in public and private datacenters from "malicious administrators."
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 13, 2016
Microsoft's Azure Container Service became commercially available on Tuesday, alongside the launch of a new open source project from partner Mesosphere.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 19, 2016
VMware, whose parent company is set to be acquired by Dell as part of the largest deal in IT history, reportedly began laying off employees this week, just ahead of its fourth-quarter earnings announcement.
- By Keith Ward
- January 26, 2016
Citrix, a company in the midst of a significant restructuring effort, signaled a return to its roots during this week's Citrix Summit partner conference in Las Vegas.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 13, 2016