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Review: Microsoft Azure reaches beyond Windows

A long time ago in a century getting further and further away, Bill Gates compared MSN with the exploding World Wide Web, saw the future, and pivoted nicely to embrace the Internet. A few decades later, someone at Microsoft looked … Continue reading

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HP Enterprise will maximize opportunities as Azure reseller

Hewlett Packard Enterprise may have abandoned the public cloud, but that isn’t stopping it from trying to be an enterprise cloud provider of some variety. HP Enterprise’s latest strategy, which dovetails with earlier plans to focus on private and managed clouds, … Continue reading

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Its cloud soon gone, HP aligns with Microsoft Azure

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise has partnered with Microsoft to offer its Azure cloud services to customers, filling a gap when HPE closes its own public cloud early next year. Microsoft will be a “preferred” public cloud partner to HPE, and HPE will … Continue reading

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Microsoft finally ties the knot with Red Hat for Linux on Azure

In a move many consider long overdue, Microsoft and Red Hat on Wednesday announced a new partnership through which Microsoft will offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Azure. Azure will become a … Continue reading

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Microsoft improves security for Azure SQL Database

Microsoft is giving database administrators working with Azure SQL Database a new suite of security tools to check out. A new Always Encrypted feature will be available as a public beta by the end of the month. It allows users … Continue reading

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Gartner Magic Quadrant Report Shows Only a Race Between AWS and Azure

The annual report of research firm Gartner the market for IaaS cloud computing shows that no clear leader (Amazon Web Services) and someone who clearly defies (Microsoft Azure). And then there are all the others. The market is dominated by … Continue reading

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Microsoft Azure Updates Target Developers, Partners

Microsoft is looking to make Azure more appealing to its community of developers and channel partners as way of countering AWS and Google. InformationWeek: Cloud

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Microsoft Releases Azure Govt Cloud Platform; Satya Nadella Comments

Microsoft Releases Azure Govt Cloud Platform; Satya Nadella Comments The Azure Government offering is meant to help agencies manage cloud-based applications as well as storage, networking and data systems through Microsoft's data center network, Microsoft said Tuesday. The company also … Continue reading

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NetCom Learning offers webinar on Hybrid Cloud Storage with StorSimple & Microsoft Azure

New York, New York (PRWEB) November 07, 2014 NetCom Learning, the experts in IT training solutions, is offering a webinar on Hybrid Cloud Storage with StorSimple and Microsoft Azure. The webinar, which will be led by Microsoft Technical Specialist and … Continue reading

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Microsoft Boosts Management Automation Features of Azure Hybrid Cloud

Microsoft Boosts Management Automation Features of Azure Hybrid Cloud … A new feature called Azure Operational Insights will tie the cloud service and Azure HDInsight with Microsoft's System Center management platform. HDInsight, the Apache Hadoop-based Big Data analytics service, will … Continue reading

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