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Azure Cloud Lifts Microsoft Revenues
Microsoft's otherwise lackluster quarterly earnings report, weighed down by the closing of its deal to buy the Nokia smartphone business, nevertheless showed sustained growth in its Azure cloud. Revenue ...Full Article
Toshiba Revs Up SQL Server With Flash Accelerator
Toshiba and SanDisk are partners in the manufacturing of NAND flash memory but in January, Toshiba acquired OCZ Storage Solutions, a maker of flash-based SAS and SATA drives and ...Full Article
IEEE Gets Behind 25G Ethernet Effort
After several days of presentations and a unanimous vote of 61 to zero in favor, the members of the IEEE have decided to back an effort to develop 25 ...Full Article
Nadella Pep Talk Stresses Microsoft ‘Ecosystem’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered a pep talk to the company's partner network this week in which he sought to flesh out the company's strategy for a "mobile-first, cloud-first ...Full Article
Rackspace Unveils ‘Managed Cloud’ Strategy
Cloud services provider Rackspace is unveiling a "managed cloud" strategy built around new service levels and a pricing model aimed at businesses looking for single- or multi-tenant servers, or ...Full Article
Microsoft Storage Appliances Push Data To Azure
Microsoft is rolling out the latest series of its Azure storage appliances with an eye toward helping customers manage data growth while forestalling the seemingly endless cycle of buying ...Full Article
Interxion Gets Fast Links To AWS, Microsoft Clouds
Interxion, the Dutch cloud and datacenter services specialist, said its customers could link to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure from any of its 37 datacenters. The private connections ...Full Article
VMware, Microsoft Rule X86 Server Virtualization
In many ways, the choice of a server virtualization technology is more important for a large enterprise than is the choice of the underlying physical server platform. While the ...Full Article
Cloud Builders Push 25G Ethernet Standard
Unhappy with the cost per gigabit of bandwidth with current Ethernet switches and adapters, two of the cloud computing giants – Google and Microsoft – have teamed up with ...Full Article
Microsoft Pressuring AWS In The Clouds
A closely watched assessment of the cloud computing industry again ranks Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the leading cloud infrastructure-as-a-service provider (IaaS), but notes that rival Microsoft is slowly ...Full Article
