We all know that the future of computing is in the cloud. People are using cloud services more and more frequently (even if they don’t know it), and businesses are moving in the same direction because it’s less expensive and more efficient. One of the best examples for a cloud-based platform is Microsoft Azure. Keep […]
Enlarge / The 13.5-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop 3. Microsoft beat analyst expectations in its quarterly earnings report, achieving $33.06 billion in revenue in the start of its first 2020 fiscal quarter (which ended September 30) compared to a projected $32.23 billion. That’s a 14% increase over the same quarter the prior year. Much of the
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Adesto Technologies Corporation provides application-specific semiconductors and systems for the Internet of Things (IoT). In a press release today, Adesto announced it has joined Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT. This will allow customers to use Adesto’s SmartServer IoT on hardware and software designed to work with Microsoft Azure IoT services. Adesto’s SmartServer IoT is a
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Mackmyra’s Intelligens is billed as the first whisky created using AI. (Microsoft / Mackmyra Photo) Computer scientists have tried using artificial intelligence to write poetry and compose music, with mixed results. But have they tried using it to make whisky? We now know that they have, although drinkers in the U.S. will have to wait
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Just weeks after picking up application optimization specialist jClarity Ltd., Microsoft Corp. has made another strategic purchase to boost its cloud capabilities. The company today announced the acquisition of Movere Inc., a software provider based out of Bellevue, Washington that sells an infrastructure assessment platform. The product enables enterprises to take stock of their technology assets
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“VMWare allows the datacenter to act like a public cloud,” says VMWare COO Sanjay Poonen. “It is a multicloud world. While AWS will be first and preferred for us, we want every customer that has VMWare in the private cloud but AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and Alibaba, those are the top five hyperscalers, and all
Microsoft is competing with Amazon for the enterprise cloud by focusing on being more than just a technology provider. Julia White, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Azure Marketing, says that they are “helping companies with their transformation and not just being a technology vendor or a cloud vendor for them.” Microsoft Corporate VP of Azure
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Microsoft Azure customers were pleasantly surprised today. The cloud computing company just announced that it has substantially dropped the price for its Azure Standard support to just $100 per month, making it the most affordable support package among the big three cloud computing firms. The price slash of the Azure Standard support, which was previously
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Microsoft’s Azure is finally gaining a foothold in the cloud computing niche with its market share jumping from 16 to 20 percent in the 4th quarter of 2017. The jump amounts to around $3.7 billion of its total revenue for the year. In contrast, Amazon Web Services (AWS) saw its market share drop from 68 to 62 percent in
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