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  • Muglia offers details on Microsoft Azure Appliance

    On Monday, during the kickoff of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference being held this week in Washington D.C., Microsoft <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/071210-microsoft-releases-azure-cloud-platform.html">announced</a> that it would be releasing a version of its Windows Azure cloud computing platform that can be run as part of an appliance offering.

  • Microsoft exec: We and users win with cloud

    Microsoft is firmly on the cloud-computing bandwagon and with good reason -- it can make more money by doing so, even as it helps customers cut costs, business division head Stephen Elop said at the Convergence conference in Atlanta on Sunday.

  • New Microsoft server chief preps cloud push

    Microsoft Australia’s director of its server business group, Phil Goldie, is preparing to work with enterprises on software deployment and licensing when its Azure cloud platform becomes available in April.

  • Microsoft's Ballmer: 'For the cloud, we're all in'

    Microsoft is betting the cloud will deliver it and its customers the most opportunities for innovation and development. And according to CEO Steve Ballmer, five key reasons are driving the company's confidence in - and technology strategy for - cloud computing in the coming years.

  • Realigning Microsoft Azure unit may boost innovation, squabbling

    Unifying Windows Azure with its on-premises counterpart Windows Server should hasten the rollout of new features in Microsoft Corp.'s enterprise cloud platform, but it also will pit Azure against Microsoft's other cloud services for the loyalty of a key customer base, says one independent Microsoft analyst.

  • Microsoft ups cloud computing ante with Azure, 'Dallas'

    Microsoft announced that its Azure cloud computing platform will be launched into production on January 1st of 2010. Chief software architect Ray Ozzie also unveiled details of a cloud computing project, codenamed 'Dallas'.

  • Microsoft demos PHP apps kit for the cloud

    Moving on plans to enable development of PHP applications for its Windows Azure cloud platform, Microsoft plans to demonstrate this week the PHP SDK for Windows Azure at TechEd India, a Microsoft representative said.

  • Microsoft's cloud identity platform on track

    Microsoft's identity platform for the cloud is on track and users will likely see another beta next month and final shipment before the end of the year, according to Microsoft.<br/>

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