Following an ongoing industry trend, Sage Group is moving a number of its ERP (enterprise resource planning) software products to Microsoft's Azure cloud... full story ![]()
Filed under: Investing Although I no longer hold the stock, I still find myself defending Microsoft quite a bit. That in and of itself might seem like a problem -- when a company of Microsoft's stature needs so much validation. There's still a lot of good in this company, however. This despite the fact that it seems the tech world -- specifically Apple and Google -- has left...
dailyfinance.com (2 months and 2 days ago)

Microsoft has intensified its efforts to increase take-up of its Windows Azure cloud platform. Last week it announced that the Azure Active Directory service was ready to use in production and launched the full version of its Azure based backup service. Today its Linux and Windows Server virtual machines (VMs) are moving from test to general availability, as part of the...
techradar.com (1 month ago)
Microsoft says its sold a billion dollars worth of cloud services. But as is usually the case, the value of cloud sales depends on what your definition of cloud is.
gigaom.com (19 days ago)

While workers at many companies were ending their work week Friday, Microsoft techs were scrambling to put out operational fires. Late on Friday afternoon, Microsoft discovered that its worldwide Azure cloud service had gone offline when an expired security certificate prevented users from accessing the network. Meanwhile, the company also discovered that a malware...
pcworld.com (2 months and 25 days ago)

Microsoft Azure, which started the week with kudos as the best cloud storage service, is down and out on Friday.
gigaom.com (2 months and 26 days ago)
Following on from the entirely bizarre falling over of Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform, last Friday, we're getting interesting little stories that make it all so much worse.
forbes.com (2 months and 23 days ago)
This really is an abject failure by Microsoft. Yes, of course, things, mistakes, like this can happen to anyone. But the idea of hading over your entire computing system to a multinational running a cloud computing system is that they have in place the structures to stop such mistakes. Which clearly Microsoft don't: their Azure system fell over yesterday as a result of the...
forbes.com (2 months and 25 days ago)

IT folks who worry that cloud computing adoption will kill jobs, may be surprised by the results of a new survey; Amazon unveils OpsWorks; Rackspace makes price changes.
gigaom.com (2 months and 24 days ago)

Azure's failure illuminates the pitfalls of storing important information in remote data centers. Online storage, often called "cloud computing," is growing in appeal because it allows workers to pull up data, wherever they are, to an Internet-connected device.
cleveland.com (2 months and 26 days ago)
REDMOND, Wash. - Recent blog posts by Microsoft Corp. indicate it has been dealing with Azure service outages and contending with hackers.
shreveporttimes.com (2 months and 26 days ago)
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