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Azure SQL Data Warehouse goes GA, offering key IT service – well after its competitors

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a data-analysis service that many companies are likely to find important.… Read More

‘The cloud is the new normal’: Microsoft urges partners to get on board on third day of Toronto conference

Microsoft turned to legal issues, the environment and the nuts-and-bolts of selling its wares today as several execs addressed a… Read More

IBM, alone among major cloud providers, launches Infrastructure as a Service in Pakistan

IBM and Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd. have agreed to offer public cloud services in Pakistan, the companies announced. They will use servers… Read More

Unexpected hardware limits on Microsoft’s Azure Stack vex some developers

Azure Stack, the important hybrid-cloud product that Microsoft announced in January, will be more limited than some developers hoped. Now in… Read More

‘Microsoft got cool again’: Office 365 lands Facebook in big customer win

Facebook has agreed to use pieces of Office 365 software as a service, vindicating the usefulness of Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity suite for a high-profile,… Read More

Datadog hit by security breach affecting some Amazon Web Services customers

Cloud metrics firm Datadog has revoked all stored passwords and notified customers via email that a database containing the passwords… Read More

Salesforce offers beta of Bring Your Own Key security, a risky but ultra-secure cloud protection

Salesforce today made available the beta version of its Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) security, characterized by end-users’ holding onto encryption… Read More

Chef debuts Automate, its first commercial, enterprise-level automation package

Seattle-based DevOps firm Chef today released Automate, a commercial integration of several open-source and commercial offerings that it described as a enterprise-oriented package for automating… Read More

Microsoft scores cloud partnership with GE’s Predix IoT platform, marking first step in ‘broad strategic collaboration’

Microsoft and General Electric this morning said they will make GE’s Predix platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) available… Read More

Datadog adds support for Microsoft’s Azure Resource Manager, helping wean users off ‘classic’ APIs

Cloud-monitoring firm Datadog now supports Azure Resource Manager, Microsoft’s unified product for controlling all pieces of an application’s infrastructure from… Read More

Microsoft releases Always Encrypted feature for Azure SQL Database

The Always Encrypted feature for Microsoft’s Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 is now generally available, the company said. It keeps… Read More

Google Cloud Platform acquires Anvato to add video-processing capabilities

Google Cloud Platform is aiming to add video processing to its services through its acquisition of Anvato, a Mountain View, Calif, company that… Read More

Microsoft releasing Power BI Embedded service and publish-to-web feature

Microsoft said today that it will make its Power BI Embedded Azure service generally available on Monday. The service lets independent… Read More

Video in a test tube? Microsoft and UW raise the bar for DNA data storage systems

Computer scientists from Microsoft and the University of Washington say they’ve set a new standard for DNA storage of digital… Read More

Microsoft challenges partner Salesforce with its Dynamics 365, combining CRM, ERP and Office

In a move that could give Microsoft new ammunition against its CRM rival and cloud partner Salesforce, the Redmond company today announced Dynamics… Read More

K2 Software adds Android support and DocuSign integration, details $150M investment

K2 Software, of Bellevue, Wash., today announced several additions and improvements to its line of tools for building business-process applications, including new… Read More

Microsoft releases tools for managing virtual machines through Azure Resource Manager

Microsoft has announced the general availability of tools that let customers with virtual machines manage them through the Azure Resource Manager rather than… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands EC2’s powerful ‘run command’ to outside servers and VMs

Amazon Web Services has added the ability to use the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)’s powerful “run command” feature with a single log-in to… Read More

Azure rising: Microsoft will be largest Infrastructure as a Service vendor by 2019, says new Morgan Stanley survey

A new, international survey of 100 CIOs has good news for cloud companies — especially Microsoft — and, predictably, bad news for… Read More

Allrecipes finds the perfect dining partner, picks Microsoft’s Azure to handle spikes in traffic

It’s 5:15 p.m. and 60 degrees on a rainy November 30 at your home in Miami. You go to Allrecipes seeking inspiration.… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands its text-messaging service to phones in 200 countries

Organizations are increasingly using cell phone text messages to verify log-in credentials, notify customers of their account status or even… Read More

Long-awaited AWS Elastic File System, while pricey and limited, is ‘one more step toward real-world IT’

After a beta period stretching nearly 15 months, Amazon Web Services today made its Elastic File System (EFS) generally available.… Read More

Amazon Web Services adds Mumbai as a region, to better serve huge Indian market

Amazon Web Services has added a new cloud computing region in Mumbai, India — its first in the country — to better serve the… Read More

Five years after launch, Microsoft’s Office 365 is the most popular enterprise cloud service

Microsoft’s Office 365 became generally available for businesses five years ago today, and it has grown remarkably in the time… Read More

Stung by compliance failures, Zenefits crafts cloud app to track insurance licensing

Attempting to recover from months of scandal over insurance agents’ credentials, HR service Zenefits today announced a cloud-based application it… Read More

Microsoft announces .NET Core 1.0 for Linux, MacOS and Windows

Continuing to make good on its November 2014 pledge of greater openness in its Core products, Microsoft today announced Linux, MacOS and Windows… Read More

NASCAR starts using Microsoft app to monitor live data from track

NASCAR officials have started using a new Windows 10 app from Microsoft to monitor live video feeds and transponder data… Read More

Resin.io, a DevOps vendor for the Internet of Things, scores $9M from Ericsson, GE and others

Resin.io, a Seattle-based startup that helps Linux-based developers more easily update the software in internet-connected devices, has received $9 million in funding… Read More

Survey: Container management tops concerns among DevOps personnel

The most challenging aspect of using containerized applications is managing them, according to half of the 711 DevOps staffers surveyed by container-management firm… Read More

Q&A: AI2 researcher Peter Clark explains how the cloud is changing artificial intelligence

Peter Clark is a senior research manager at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, overseeing Project Aristo, an effort to… Read More