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Benefit From Microsoft’s Open Compute Hyperscale Designs
All large companies, whether they are hyperscale datacenter operators or cloud providers or they are enterprises supporting a diverse mix of workloads, wrestle with the polar opposites of creating ...Full Article
ARM Servers To Get Muscle From Microsoft?
Microsoft is reportedly – and not unexpectedly – developing a variant of the Windows Server operating system that runs on ARM server processors. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft has a ...Full Article
Microsoft Fattens Up Azure Compute To Compete
Microsoft's entry this week into the converged cloud infrastructure market was accompanied by the roll out of a new series of virtual machines for the Azure cloud. In laying ...Full Article
Private Azure Clouds Come To Dell Hardware
Signaling its shift to a "converged infrastructure" model, Microsoft announced a series of moves this week designed to flesh out its Azure cloud offering, including a preconfigured cloud appliance ...Full Article
Windows Server To Get Docker App Containers
Microsoft is jumping on the Docker container bandwagon. The company is expanding its partnership with Docker, the company, to give it access to emerging application container technologies that will ...Full Article
Verizon Cloud Interconnect Adds AWS
Verizon's Enterprise Solutions unit is expanding connections to its private IP cloud interconnect service to include Amazon Web Services. Verizon's Secure Cloud Interconnect (SCI) service currently works with Microsoft ...Full Article
Microsoft’s Own Five Year Move To The Azure Cloud
Just because you have built one of the world's largest clouds does not necessarily mean that you can easily move your own applications to it. Such is the case ...Full Article
Cascade of Service Outages Plague Azure Cloud
There has been no silver lining behind the Microsoft Azure cloud service during August, according to an outfit that tracks cloud outages and downtime. Meanwhile, Amazon Web Service performance ...Full Article
Azure Cloud Lifts Microsoft Revenues
Microsoft's otherwise lackluster quarterly earnings report, weighed down by the closing of its deal to buy the Nokia smartphone business, nevertheless showed sustained growth in its Azure cloud. Revenue ...Full Article
Toshiba Revs Up SQL Server With Flash Accelerator
Toshiba and SanDisk are partners in the manufacturing of NAND flash memory but in January, Toshiba acquired OCZ Storage Solutions, a maker of flash-based SAS and SATA drives and ...Full Article
