Cloud Computing

This article will show you three designs, each building on the other, for a demilitarized zone (DMZ) or perimeter network for Internet facing n-tier applications based on Azure virtual machines and networking.

Microsoft announced today that it will shut down its MSN web portal in China, ceding the market to Baidu.com. Not coincidentally, Microsoft is partnering with Baidu on other initiatives, including Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge, in China.

What can an established company do to compete with revolutionary companies, or to compete more effectively with existing, yet more agile, competitors? Jeff James gives his take in his latest article for Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

A new study suggests that 2016 might be the year where a software-defined data center (SDDC) approach might become the norm for many enterprises.

Microsoft and Google jointly announced on Friday that the two firms would set aside their regulatory complaints against each other around the world. Now, the firms will only compete in the open market, they say.

Learn to use the new PowerShell resource management cmdlets to provision a VM as a domain controller in Azure.

Because this happens only four times a year, this edition of Short Takes focuses on Microsoft’s quarterly earnings report: the big picture, plus closer looks at cloud, Windows, Surface, Phone, Xbox and Office.

Microsoft has launched a public preview of Azure Site Recovery in the Azure Portal.

Microsoft announced two free online resources that are designed to help IT pros advance their careers in cloud technologies, such as Microsoft Azure.

The U.S. Supreme Court this week refused to hear a challenge to an important Google book scanning lawsuit, leaving an appeals court decision in place. It’s just the latest in a long line of reminders of how hands-off the U.S. is with tech giants compared to the EU.