Posts Tagged ‘Azure’

Azure now has 31,000 customers
Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure is a year old today, and Microsoft says it now has 31,000 customers. The new number is a 55 percent increase from the 20,000 customers Microsoft said Azure had in July.

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Build a Private Azure Cloud with New Microsoft Appliance
Companies interested in taking advantage of what cloud computing has to offer, but reluctant to trust sensitive information off-site now have a new alternative with Microsoft’s Windows Azure Platform appliance. Microsoft has teamed up with strategic hardware partners to develop an appliance-based approach allowing businesses to deploy and control their own cloud.

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Microsoft Releases Azure Cloud Platform Appliance
With the help of hardware partners, Microsoft has released a version of its Windows Azure cloud platform as an appliance, the company said on Monday during the kickoff of its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) being held this week in Washington D.C.

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Muglia on Google, Azure, and the future of Windows Server
In an interview, the head of Microsoft’s server software unit talks about what businesses want–and don’t want–from the cloud.

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