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• PageUp People app goes up into Azure cloud

  PageUp People said hosting its CareerPath application in the cloud is saving the company $130,000 per annum.

• Microsoft Windows Azure tops Cloud speed tests

  Microsoft’s Windows Azure has come out on top in a year’s worth of Cloud speed tests, beating Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and 20 others.

• Microsoft boosts Java accommodations on Azure cloud

  Microsoft is improving accommodations for Java developers on the Windows Azure cloud, with an upgraded plug-in for Eclipse-based software developers.

• Microsoft pairs Azure cloud with mobile devices

  Microsoft is positioning its Windows Azure cloud service as a platform to provide back-end services for mobile devices, including Apple's iOS and Google's Android.

• Micro Focus extends Cobol to Java and the cloud

  Micro Focus on Thursday announced it is extending its Cobol platform to Java and the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform, with the launch of Micro Focus Visual Cobol R3.

• HP's private Cloud moves local

  Technology giant HP will begin pushing its 'Utility Services' private Cloud model in the Australian market from early next year, with plans to provide virtualisation business applications from the likes of Microsoft, Oracle and SAP.
  

• Microsoft taps virtualization to move apps to cloud

  Microsoft is looking to make it easier to move existing Windows Server applications to the company's Windows Azure cloud platform via virtual machine technology.

• Vmware finds 'killer app' in Salesforce.com add ons

  The VMforce cloud platform in development by VMware and Salesforce.com will be most useful for customers with existing Salesforce deployments, but can technically be used to build any Java application, a VMware official says.