Cloud Computing

In this week’s other news, Satya Nadella celebrates year one as Microsoft CEO but I raise questions, Radio Shack bites the dust, and Obama’s iPhone preview.

According to a report in TechCrunch, Microsoft’s manic bid to dominate mobile productivity continued this week with an as-yet-unannounced $100+ million purchase of online calendar maker Sunrise. The Sunrise calendar is notable for a number of reasons, including its pervasive support for third-party data sources. And this purchase complements an earlier $200 million purchase of…

Google this week reported net income of $4.76 billion on revenues of $18.10 billion for the 4th quarter of 2014. But the results fell short of expectations.

In an effort to make Business Intelligence more approachable, Microsoft announced that it plans to update its Power BI service and roll out a new Power BI Pro version.

Russell Smith compares Microsoft Azure to Amazon EC2 in the realm of cloud security. Which cloud provider has the better security options? Read on for Russell’s take.

JumpCloud Directory-as-a-Service (DaaS) promises to provide a cloud-based alternative to on-premise directory services like Active Directory and LDAP.

Learn how to downsize to an ‘extra small’ server core Microsoft Azure VM in this how-to by Russell Smith.

Considering moving your Windows Server test labs to Microsoft Azure? Russell Smith outlines some drawbacks to putting your test environment in the cloud.

Russell Smith shares a helpful PowerShell script to provision domain controllers in Microsoft Azure.

Aidan Finn shows a step-by-step process for creating a VNet-to-VNet VPN to connect two virtual networks in the same or different Microsoft Azure regions or subscriptions.