Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft added Kubernetes support to Azure Container Service (ACS) last November, albeit on a preview basis. Today, the company made it official. Kubernetes is now generally available on ACS, announced Saurya Das, program manager at Microsoft Azure Linux. The open-source container management technology, originally developed at Google and now a project under the Linux Foundation’s […]

Microsoft has released Community Technology Preview (CTP) 1.3 of the next version of SQL Server for both Windows and Linux, codenamed SQL Server vNext. The newest preview release follows last month’s CTP 1.2, which included SUSE Linux support. This time around, the software giant added the Always On Availability Groups feature to the Linux edition, […]

SAP recently updated its S/4HANA Cloud business application suite with an array of new intelligent software capabilities that the German software maker is betting will help organizations make smarter business decisions while their users spend less time pouring over enterprise resource planning (ERP) data. Based on the company’s in-memory computing and analytics platform, S/4HANA Cloud already produces […]

Last week, just before the RSA Conference kicked off in San Francisco, Microsoft teased several upcoming security-themed products, including a new Azure SQL Database Threat Detection offering that can sniff out suspicious database activity. A recent blog post from Ron Matchoro, senior program manager at Microsoft Azure SQL Database, sheds more light on things. “Azure […]

Microsoft is making some tweaks to Windows Insider over the next few months, bringing the Windows 10 testing and feedback program more in line with the way IT workers evaluate software. “You’ve told us you want better support when you to run Insider builds within your organization,” wrote Bill Karagounis, director of program management at […]

Microsoft is already bullish about artificial intelligence (AI) in the corporate world. Even households are part of the Redmond, Wash. technology giant’s plan to bring the technology into the mainstream. Today, Microsoft set its sights on the health care industry. The company took the wraps off Healthcare NExT, a technology and partnership program that brings […]

Microsoft and professional services provider KPMG International announced today that the companies are partnering on the formation of Blockchain Nodes in select cities. Blockchain Nodes are innovation centers intended to engage with local technology companies, developer communities and startups and help create new blockchain-based solutions. Initially, the centers will focus on blockchain applications for the […]

Microsoft announced on Feb. 15 the release of an open-source software toolkit called AirSim that can aid researchers in building autonomous drones and robots. The technology originates from a Microsoft Research project that is also making its official debut on Feb. 15 called the Aerial Informatics and Robotics Platform. The project’s aim is to deliver […]

As if Amazon has nothing better to do, it’s now going into the unified communications business to compete with the likes of Cisco Systems, Polycom, Avaya, Microsoft, Mitel and several others. The Seattle-based web services and retail megacompany on Feb. 14 launched Amazon Chime, a new, freemium-based unified communications service that it claims delivers “frustration-free […]

Microsoft is making it easier for HoloLens users to share their mixed reality experiences with a group. The HoloLens headset can layer interactive 3D imagery on top of the physical world, but by its very nature, it’s somewhat of a solitary affair. While the company’s Mixed Reality Capture (MRC) technology can be used to record […]