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Microsoft Plans to Move (Nearly) all its Internal IT to Azure by 2018

Microsoft is planning on migrating all its compatible legacy infrastructure to its own Azure cloud in an effort to reduce operating costs and take advantage of server virtualization efficiencies, but also to prove that its cloud is capable of the company’s own demanding IT needs. Continue reading

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Microsoft Azure Launches New Services Aimed at Developers

Microsoft is seeking to improve Azure’s appeal to developers with a set of new services and updates, the company announced Thursday. New services include DocumentDB and Search, while HDInsight support for Apache HBase has been made generally available and VM Depot images have been added to the Azure gallery. Continue reading

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Microsoft Azure Outages May be Problematic for New Cloud Service Offerings

Microsoft Azure has experienced a number of service outages in August including another one Monday that lasted for five hours. Continue reading

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Microsoft Reports Several Azure Disruptions in August

Over the past several days, Microsoft’s public cloud platform Azure has had a number of significant issues ranging from users having trouble logging in to partial and full service interruptions. Continue reading

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Microsoft Adds Private Azure Connectivity in Five US Markets, Hong Kong and Singapore

Microsoft has added seven Equinix data centers to the list of locations from which customers can connect privately to its Azure cloud. Five of the new locations are in the U.S. (Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, New York and Seattle), and two are in Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore). Continue reading

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