Cloud Computing

April 8, 2014
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 2.0 now available

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) 2.0, a supported, freely available solution for converting VMware-based virtual machines and virtual disks to Hyper-V-based virtual machines and virtual hard disks, is being released Tuesday, reports the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team.

March 27, 2014
Satya Nadella: The cloud and mobile can be first at the same time

In a Thursday blog post on The Official Microsoft Blog, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella explains how, in the new “mobile-first cloud-first world,” cloud and mobile are two facets of one thing. “The cloud was created to enable mobility. And mobile devices are really uninteresting without the cloud,” he writes. “That’s why I talk about them together. Mobile without cloud is limiting. The cloud without mobile is mostly latent potential. But the place where they meet is magic.”

March 27, 2014
Microsoft unveils the Enterprise Mobility Suite

In a blog post Thursday, Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of Cloud and Enterprise, focused on the three key elements of the suite: Identity and access management delivered by Azure Active Directory Premium, mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) delivered by Windows Intune, and data protection delivered by Azure AD Rights Management Services.