Microsoft turned in pretty good second quarter results on Monday, but its stock still took a hit after hours and into Tuesday. At time of posting, Microsoft shares were off 8.6 percent… Read more »
2014 was the year in which both Microsoft and Google got serious about their public cloud options and taking on Amazon Web Services directly with their own Infrastructure as a Service… Read more »
OpenStack backer Rackspace jumps on Azure bandwagon, Microsoft ally Apprenda embraces Amazon Web Serivces. What’s going on here? The week in cloud. Read more »
Given their huge resources, it’s obvious who the Big Three companies are in public cloud. The question is, after them, who else can compete. Read more »
Microsoft is talking a lot about the scale of its cloud computing platform lately, but scale alone won’t help it steal revenue from Amazon Web Services or Google. Microsoft’s advantage is… Read more »
In an interview, Microsoft EVP Scott Guthrie says cloud is no longer a one-horse race. And the days of cloud players competing on price alone are going the way of the… Read more »
Building a global cloud is extremely expensive, so if a cloud provider wants to play in that league and hasn’t already spent billions, it should rethink, says Satya Nadella. Read more »
Microsoft is expanding its Azure platform again, this time rolling out a NoSQL database service as well as a new search tool. It’s the kind of innovation Microsoft needs to focus… Read more »