Azure Sphere microcontroller out in February
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Tuesday, 29 October 2019 12:51

Azure Sphere microcontroller out in February


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.

Microsoft provides tools to find holes in Azure
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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.

LinkedIn is moving to Microsoft’s Azure public cloud
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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.

More than half of Azure VMs are Linux
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Tuesday, 02 July 2019 12:21

More than half of Azure VMs are Linux


… 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".

Amazon might spin off its cloud services
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Wednesday, 05 December 2018 12:27

Amazon might spin off its cloud services


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.

Azure dominated by Linux
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Friday, 28 September 2018 10:33

Azure dominated by Linux


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.

Azure was downed for seven hours by fire alarm
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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.

Azure goes database mad
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Thursday, 11 May 2017 11:07

Azure goes database mad


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 server supports Microsoft's cloud
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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. 

Azure is the better HPC
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Tuesday, 14 February 2017 11:53

Azure is the better HPC


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.