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• Fujitsu investment in local data centres pays off

  Fujitsu A/NZ’s investment in data centres locally is paying off with the news that the company will play a part in hosting Microsoft’s Azure platform in its data centres.

• 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: Features still missing in Azure

  Due to an early emphasis on getting the right architecture for its Azure cloud platform, which went live in February, Microsoft's cloud service is still missing key features that are available in the company's standalone products, said Microsoft executives at the company's 2010 Tech Ed conference, being held this week in New Orleans.

• Microsoft stresses Azure cloud apps at TechEd

  Microsoft has added .NET Framework 4 support to the Windows Azure software development kit, making it easier for developers to build web applications in the cloud.

• Salesforce pushes multi-tenancy in the cloud

  Multi-tenancy is the most important aspect of cloud computing, according to Salesforce.com platform sales engineer, Clayton Brown.

• Microsoft: Cloud revenue to hit in a couple years

  Microsoft plans to invest heavily in its cloud platform but expects to see little revenue for two to three years, Bob Muglia, the president of the server and tools business, said Tuesday.

• Microsoft begins paving path for IT, cloud integration

  Microsoft last week launched its first serious effort to build IT into its cloud plans by introducing technologies that help connect existing corporate networks and cloud services to make them look like a single infrastructure.

• Microsoft reveals Windows Azure pricing, availability

  Microsoft on Tuesday revealed pricing and more details about how it will sell its Windows Azure cloud-computing infrastructure, making it free for anyone to use now before the company begins charging for it in November.

• Microsoft targets Windows, Linux management

  Microsoft Tuesday opened its annual management confab saying it would ship the next version of Operations Manager by the end of June and laying out its efforts to manage data centers and virtualized environments.

• Windows Azure: Microsoft banks on programmer loyalty

  Microsoft Corp.'s long hold on power in the software industry has depended on its solid grip on developers. Programmers have written uncountable desktop and client/server applications over the decades that have inextricably linked independent software developers and corporate IT shops to Microsoft. Now the company aims to do the same for cloud-based software by luring loyal programmers to its Windows Windows Azure environment.

• Microsoft blames Azure outage on OS upgrade

  Microsoft is blaming a routine OS upgrade for an outage that hit its Windows Azure cloud-computing infrastructure over the weekend.

• Windows Azure goes down for early adopters

  Users of Microsoft's cloud-computing network Windows Azure suffered an overnight outage over the weekend during which their applications being hosted on the network weren't available, Microsoft confirmed late Monday.

• Microsoft cites cloud as transformational

  Promoting its Windows Azure cloud OS, Microsoft described on Monday the cloud as a transformational shift for the industry.