Branding out now

Microsoft officials said the company's Azure Sphere microcontroller (MCU) and associated cloud security service will be generally available in February 2020.

Boosts bug bounties

Software King of the World, Microsoft has released Azure Security Lab, a sandbox-like environment for security researchers to test its cloud security. The company also doubled the top Azure bug bounty to $40,000.

Expected after the buy-out

LinkedIn said it’s finally migrating computing workloads from its own equipment to the Azure public cloud and giving Microsoft its critical data.

… and yet it is still not the year of Linux on the desktop

Microsoft Linux kernel developer Sasha Levin has revealed that "the Linux usage on our cloud has surpassed Windows".

Top Augur sees it in the entrails

A top divination expert who has a string of viable predictions under his belt, thinks that Amazon will spin off its cloud business in the near future.

How Vole quit worrying and learnt to love the penguin

Software King of the World Microsoft's flagship Azure product is mostly used in Linux boxes.

SLA for that day down to  71.6

It’s all very well these arrogant tech firms telling us that our data is safe and always accessible in the cloud - but that’s clearly not so.

Appealing to the widest range of developers

As part of its cunning plan to make Azure a platform appeals to the widest range of developers possible, Microsoft has gone a bit database mad.

Qualcomm Centriq 2400 goes to OCP

Qualcomm is getting serious about its server and data center strategy and the company has announced support for Microsoft cloud services. 

Beats Amazon, Rackspace, IBM and a supercomputer

While replacing supercomputers with cloud computing frameworks is becoming a bit of a thing, some clouds are better than others.