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The cost of the cloud: Amazon takes a breath, while Microsoft and Google plunge ahead

Building and maintaining a modern cloud computing service requires billions of dollars in capital expenditures every quarter. Microsoft and Google… Read More

Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenue jumped 47 percent in its fiscal Q1, but Azure growth slows

Microsoft’s transformation into a cloud computing company continued apace in during its first fiscal quarter, which saw a 47 percent… Read More

VMware doubles down on Bellevue as its partnerships with cloud providers deepen

VMware plans to expand its presence in Bellevue with enough space to double its headcount in the region its two… Read More

Microsoft makes its pitch for the Pentagon cloud contract with expanded federal certifications

The bids for the $10 billion Department of Defense cloud computing contract are due by the end of the week,… Read More

Microsoft will launch testing of Project xCloud game streaming service in 2019, powered by custom servers built from Xbox components

Starting next year, gamers across consoles, PCs, and mobile devices will be able to access a new service from Microsoft… Read More

Volkswagen strikes cloud partnership deal with Microsoft, will open Seattle-area cloud office

Volkswagen has chosen Microsoft as its cloud partner, with plans to build a network of Azure-connected cars as well as… Read More

Cloudflare enlists Microsoft and other cloud companies in the Bandwidth Alliance, promising cheaper cloud networking costs

With one notable exception, Cloudflare has brought several major cloud and data center companies together in a new industry group… Read More

Microsoft teams up with Adobe and SAP on Open Data Initiative to link data across their products

Modern enterprise technology generates a ton of valuable data, but putting that data together can be quite tricky. Microsoft introduced… Read More

Hybrid cloud customers are getting new services — and new hardware — from Microsoft Azure

It’s become pretty clear this year that cloud vendors have decided that the hybrid cloud is here to stay, and… Read More

Microsoft Azure customers will be able to make digital replicas of physical spaces with Digital Twins

Microsoft’s emphasis on the industrial internet of things this year has produced a new service that will let customers create… Read More

Microsoft makes its case that Azure and Microsoft 365 are the safest spaces in the cloud

Despite the fact that cloud vendors are very good at security, and your average IT department is not, worries about… Read More

Microsoft updates its database story with SQL Server 2019 and new cloud database features

One of the most fundamental aspects of computing infrastructure will play a key role in Microsoft’s Ignite 2018 pitch to… Read More

Microsoft releases details on last week’s big Azure outage, during which servers were damaged but no data was lost

A severe lightning storm in the San Antonio area last week not only disrupted the power supply to Microsoft Azure’s… Read More

Some Microsoft Azure issues stretch into a second day, as Active Directory and Office 365 stabilize

A series of failures at Microsoft’s San Antonio data centers continued to cause issues for some customers stretching into the… Read More

Updated: Microsoft Azure’s southern U.S. data center goes down for hours, impacting Office365 and Active Directory customers

Some Microsoft Azure customers with workloads running in its South Central US data center are having big problems coming back… Read More

With Pentagon cloud contract in the balance, Microsoft’s hybrid-cloud product, Azure Stack, now certified for government use

As the federal government reviews submissions from cloud computing companies for the $10 billion Department of Defense cloud contract, Microsoft… Read More

Now you can see what the fish off the North Scotland coast think of Microsoft’s Project Natick undersea data center

If you’ve ever happened upon a conventional data center, you were probably underwhelmed: most resemble a supersized Wal-Mart with acres… Read More

Gab user deletes anti-Semitic content after Microsoft Azure threatened to shut down the site

Microsoft was dragged into the debate Thursday over what tech companies should do about white supremacist content providers using their… Read More

Finally, a practical use for Bitcoin? Starbucks might take cryptocurrency for lattes

For technologies that have been billed as the future of payments, it’s really hard to actually use digital currencies like… Read More

State of the cloud: Amazon Web Services is bigger than its other four major competitors, combined

Is Amazon Web Services going to be the Google of cloud computing? About 15 years ago, Google’s search technology catapulted… Read More

Updated: Microsoft records 23% jump in Intelligent Cloud revenue, Azure revenue up 89% but undisclosed

Microsoft’s cloud division remains one of the primary architects of its comeback in recent years, posting a 23 percent jump… Read More

Top Microsoft chip researcher shifts to mysterious new Azure hardware division

When Microsoft shuffled the deck of cards that makes up its Azure cloud computing division a few months ago, it… Read More

As cloud competition heats up, Microsoft will pitch its partners on new Azure and Power BI features

Visiting Las Vegas in the middle of July seems like a questionable idea, but thousands of Microsoft partners will descend… Read More

Hot cloud database startup Snowflake Computing, born on Amazon Web Services, adds support for Microsoft Azure

After establishing a foothold in the cloud-based data warehousing market on the infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services, Snowflake Computing… Read More

Microsoft Azure CTO: AI and machine learning “are going to transform every industry”

Now that the basic appeal of cloud computing has been established — compute and storage resources managed by your vendor… Read More

Visualizing the cloud: Time-lapse takeaways from the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Visual strategist Guillaume Wiatr has become a mainstay at GeekWire conferences, partnering with us to sketch out drawings and notes… Read More

Google Cloud CEO wanted to buy GitHub, hopes Microsoft really keeps it neutral; Azure CTO vows not to mess with it

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene was interested in buying GitHub, but she isn’t ready to buy Microsoft’s promise to keep… Read More

Microsoft introduces new data and edge-computing services for Azure customers at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Microsoft rolled out several new Azure services Wednesday at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, making a key part of its… Read More

Azure chief Jason Zander, a Microsoft lifer, is a link between the company’s past and future

Microsoft Azure Executive Vice President Jason Zander has worked for many different companies, despite the fact that he’s worked at… Read More

Developers and cloud rivals will be watching Microsoft’s plans for Azure and GitHub very closely

It’s probably the central question surrounding Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of coding repository GitHub: how will the owner of the… Read More