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Azure

Microsoft expands cloud business, opens two Azure regions in the U.K.

Microsoft has opened two Azure cloud regions and an Office 365 region in the United Kingdom, with the intention of letting… Read More

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure best serve app developers, new Forrester study concludes

The four most important criteria for developers who are assessing public-cloud providers are infrastructure, analytics, migration services and tools, Forrester Research… Read More

King of the Cloud: How the Seattle region is positioned to reinvent technology, again

In 2003, a group of Amazon.com engineers had a radical idea: offer outsiders access to the same type of infrastructure that… Read More

Microsoft winding down Azure RemoteApp in favor of XenApp ‘express,’ developed with Citrix

Microsoft is phasing out its Azure RemoteApp over the next year in favor of relying on its partnership with Citrix… Read More

Microsoft explains why Azure Stack will initially work on only a handful of servers

Microsoft today explained its reasoning for restricting the forthcoming Azure Stack to servers from Dell, HPE and Lenovo — a… Read More

Google acquires cloud commerce company Orbitera, embracing ‘multi-cloud world’

Update: Google and Orbitera are not disclosing terms of the deal but TechCrunch reports the startup sold for just over… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: It’s better to be a ‘learn-it-all’ than a ‘know-it-all’

In a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, published Thursday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlined some of the things he is doing… Read More

Microsoft Azure just behind Amazon Web Services in Gartner’s new IaaS rankings; Google is a distant third

For the third straight year, Microsoft Azure ranks just behind Amazon Web Services in the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s annual “Magic Quadrant” ranking… Read More

New stats: Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenue nears $10B a year

Revenue from Microsoft’s commercial cloud business, including Azure and Office 365, approached $10 billion in the fiscal year ended June 30, up… Read More

Microsoft’s Azure faces new challenges in streaming Rio Olympics coverage

This year’s Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which run August 5-21, won’t be the first time NBC has used Microsoft’s Azure… Read More

Romanian team wins 2016 Microsoft Imagine Cup with wearable balance and posture tracking device

Three Romanian computer science students from the University Politehnica of Bucharest won the 2016 Microsoft Imagine Cup with a wearable… Read More

IBM releases Graph, a service that can outperform SQL databases

IBM today announced the general availability of Graph, a service for the Bluemix cloud offering that the company said helps set… Read More

Amazon Web Services tops Microsoft, Google and everyone else in Gartner’s new public cloud ratings

Amazon Web Services occupies the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s new “magic quadrant” report on worldwide public cloud storage services,… Read More

Microsoft strengthens Azure’s ties to Google Drive, Dropbox and other services with new ‘connectors’

Microsoft today announced the general availability of Azure Logic Apps and the North American general availability of Azure Active Directory… Read More

BlackBerry moves customers’ apps to Microsoft Azure as it tries to rekindle its moribund handset business

Corporate America and the U.S. Senate may have fallen out of love with the BlackBerry, but as its maker tries to resurrect… Read More

Datadog adds monitoring support for IT stalwart Azure SQL

Cloud metrics firm Datadog now allows monitoring of the cloud-based version of an old IT standby: the Azure SQL relational database. Database technology… Read More

Microsoft makes one Azure security service available, prepares to release two more

Microsoft today announced the immediate or pending general availability of three security-related services for its Azure cloud. They are Security Center, Active… Read More

Google Cloud Platform opens its first West Coast region, cutting latency for users

Google Cloud Platform today opened its first West Coast cloud region, named us-west1, in The Dalles, Ore. Testing shows the new… Read More

Cloud powers Microsoft earnings as run rate tops $12B in Q4

Microsoft this afternoon posted an annualized run rate for its cloud offerings of more than $12.1 billion based on its… Read More

Gartner study: Amazon Web Services edges out Microsoft Azure for Infrastructure as a Service

Amazon Web Services scored slightly higher than Microsoft’s Azure in Gartner’s comprehensive Infrastructure as a Service assessment, released by the research… Read More

Microsoft Azure wins big piece of Boeing’s cloud computing business

Boeing will adopt Microsoft Azure for many of the commercial analytical aviation applications that the aerospace giant has built for more than… Read More

Microsoft debuts Stream, a video service for the workplace built on Azure Media Services

Microsoft today announced Stream, a business-oriented video service intended to make it simple for employees to upload, share and consume video… Read More

Microsoft refines Azure’s motion-detection service and offers DIY usage-tracking project

Microsoft has upgraded the motion-detection features of Azure Media Services, the company said in a blog post today. Rather than detecting motion… Read More

Azure SQL Data Warehouse goes GA, offering key IT service – well after its competitors

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a data-analysis service that many companies are likely to find important.… Read More

Unexpected hardware limits on Microsoft’s Azure Stack vex some developers

Azure Stack, the important hybrid-cloud product that Microsoft announced in January, will be more limited than some developers hoped. Now in… Read More

Microsoft scores cloud partnership with GE’s Predix IoT platform, marking first step in ‘broad strategic collaboration’

Microsoft and General Electric this morning said they will make GE’s Predix platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) available… Read More

Datadog adds support for Microsoft’s Azure Resource Manager, helping wean users off ‘classic’ APIs

Cloud-monitoring firm Datadog now supports Azure Resource Manager, Microsoft’s unified product for controlling all pieces of an application’s infrastructure from… Read More

Microsoft releases Always Encrypted feature for Azure SQL Database

The Always Encrypted feature for Microsoft’s Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 is now generally available, the company said. It keeps… Read More

Microsoft releases tools for managing virtual machines through Azure Resource Manager

Microsoft has announced the general availability of tools that let customers with virtual machines manage them through the Azure Resource Manager rather than… Read More

Azure rising: Microsoft will be largest Infrastructure as a Service vendor by 2019, says new Morgan Stanley survey

A new, international survey of 100 CIOs has good news for cloud companies — especially Microsoft — and, predictably, bad news for… Read More

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