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EU regulators look at Microsoft's Azure
Published in Cloud


Claims that Vole is nibbling at rivals again

Microsoft's Azure cloud business has been targeted by the European Union's antitrust arm, amid concerns the US software firm is leveraging its market power to squeeze out rivals. 

Cloud sales starting to slow
Published in Cloud
Monday, 24 April 2023 10:15

Cloud sales starting to slow


Analysts expecting the slowest growth for a decade

Demand for cloud-computing services is slowing and Microsoft and Amazon are expected to report the slowest revenue growth for their cloud-computing businesses since the firms started breaking out performance last decade.

Nvidia teams up in Microsoft Azure pact
Published in News
Wednesday, 22 March 2023 11:35

Nvidia teams up in Microsoft Azure pact


Nvidia cloud based services 

The maker of graphics cards named after a Roman vengence daemon, Nvidia has teamed up with the software King of the World, Microsoft.

Microsoft about to fire 10,000 employees
Published in News
Wednesday, 18 January 2023 11:19

Microsoft about to fire 10,000 employees


Decimation possible 

Software King of the World Microsoft is rumoured to lay off 10,000 staff today. 

Microsoft buys a share of the London Stock Exchange
Published in News


Means they will buy into Vole's cloud 

Software King of the World Microsoft has bought a four per cent share in the London Stock Exchange as part of a partnership which will see the LSEG move to Vole's Azure and Cloud.

Azure gets two next-gen VMs with AMD 4th gen EPYC processors
Published in News


Microsoft gets its foot in the door 

After AMD announced its 4th gen EPYC processors, Microsoft has unveiled its two HX-series and HBv4-series -- next-gen Azure VMs.

Microsoft offers password-free smartphone authentication
Published in Mobiles

Azure Active Director certificate-based authentication 

Software king of the world Microsoft is now offering a public preview of Azure AD CBA on devices running Apple's iOS and Android that uses certificates on Yubico's YubiKey hardware security key.

Microsoft releases virtual machines on Azure
Published in Cloud


Uses its Arm-based Ampere Altra

Microsoft announced the general availability of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture. 

Microsoft Altra-based Azure servers are Arm ready
Published in News


First cloud provider to manage it

Microsoft Ampere Altra-based Azure servers are now Arm SystemReady SR certified making them the first cloud solution provider (CSP) server to do so.

Microsoft supports ARM on Azure
Published in News
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 12:47

Microsoft supports ARM on Azure


Virtually

Microsoft has announced a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines thanks to its work with Ampere Computing.