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Azure outage knocks government's CloudStore offline

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Outage is blamed on leap year but exposes risks of a pure cloud strategy
01 Mar 2012

Government launches CloudStore

Cloud computing suppliers announced by government
Publishes the list of suppliers for its G-Cloud
20 Feb 2012

CA ERwin - Getting reacquainted with an old friend


03 Feb 2012

Ballmer: “Still a long way to go with Windows 8, and cloud services”

Microsoft CEO said every part of his business is redesiging systems around Win8 'and moving to the cloud'
15 Sep 2011

Study: cloud services at least as fast as on-premise software

Experiments with cloud services reveal that they can be just as fast as conventional environments
02 Aug 2011

Microsoft updates Intune PC management service

Beta of Intune 2.0 features software distribution capabilities
11 Jul 2011

Partnerships for Schools harnesses Microsoft Azure

Government agency launches Free School Kit using the software giant's cloud platform
25 Mar 2011

Microsoft releases new add-ons for Azure cloud service

The new services are currently available as test builds, with final versions expected shortly
01 Dec 2010

Microsoft offers free cloud platform to academics

Nottingham University gets three years of free Azure usage
27 Oct 2010

Storm clouds gather at IP Expo

3Par's Tim Pitcher attacks Acadia's Michael Capellas' assertion that enterprises are unlikely to take up the public cloud
22 Oct 2010

Cloud computing guru to leave Microsoft

Departure of chief software architect Ray Ozzie will strengthen Steve Ballmer's grip on the company
19 Oct 2010

Azure to give £100k worth of cloud services to innovative company

Competition to win six months of application hosting
12 Oct 2010

Microsoft launches Azure cloud platform

Product will be available in the new year, but billing system will not be ready until February
18 Nov 2009

Q&A: Jeremy Oates – managing director for Accenture systems integration & technology

We ask one of the top executives at the global consultancy about the challenges facing CIOs at the UK's leading companies
10 Aug 2009

RNLI plans to move boat safety system to the cloud

System to help distressed vessels will move to Microsoft's Azure platform
22 Jul 2009

Does Azure have the allure to drive enterprises into the cloud?

Microsoft's Azure plaftorm strengthens the appeal of cloud computing, but IT leaders will still have concerns
16 Jul 2009

Who will win the battle for tomorrow?

Forget Chrome OS, don't worry about Azure - Microsoft and Google really want to win over your mind
16 Jul 2009

EasyJet flies into the clouds with Azure

Budget airline is an early adopter of Microsoft's new cloud computing platform
15 Jul 2009

Can Azure conquer the cloud?

Microsoft’s plans for seeing off the growing challenge from Google became clearer this week when it revealed details of its first cloud computing platform
15 Jul 2009

Q&A: Mark Taylor – Microsoft UK developer and platform director

Could the unveiling of Microsoft's Azure cloud compute services tempt firms needing to run Windows applications inexpensively?
14 Jul 2009

Microsoft unveils Azure cloud computing service

Software giant offers hosted platform for .Net-based Windows applications, available from November
14 Jul 2009

Microsoft vs Google: you choose

A string of recent product launches suggests Google and Microsoft have stopped sparring and are now ready to slug it out in the enterprise arena
18 Jun 2009