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Cloud to generate more than 200,000 UK jobs, predicts IDC

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14 million jobs expected to be created worldwide
06 Mar 2012

Microsoft cuts SQL Azure prices

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Tech giant attempts to attract more customers to cloud-based platform
20 Feb 2012

Microsoft System Centre 2012 closes in on VMware vCentre

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The release aims to help organisations manage their cloud portfolio
18 Jan 2012

Microsoft releases Exchange Server 2010 SP2

SP2 includes a number of upgrades and bug fixes
06 Dec 2011

Lib Dems urge government to tackle cloud security issues

The party wants a new body to develop cloud standards and monitor service providers
26 Sep 2011

Gartner: Gmail is viable alternative to Microsoft Exchange for business

But Google needs to be more transparent about its back-end features
16 Sep 2011

Three more UK universities sign up to Live@edu

Microsoft's free email and collaboration service proving increasingly popular among educational institutions
15 Aug 2011

Amazon's EC2 and Microsoft's BPOS are felled by lightning

Important that we learn lessons from these events, says Rackspace manager
08 Aug 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

Yell signs Microsoft pact for cloud services

Directory services group aims to become cloud services provider
13 Jul 2011

A&N Media adopts Office 365 and aims for bring-your-own IT strategy

Publisher of The Daily Mail says it has complete faith in the cloud
04 Jul 2011

Microsoft releases first Office 2010 service pack

Microsoft launches service pack just one year after original launch
29 Jun 2011

Microsoft Office 365 cloud service for business goes live

Replacement to Microsoft BPOS and rival to Google Apps now out of beta phase
28 Jun 2011

IT Leaders' Forum - IaaS & PaaS - Cloud vision

Maurice Martin, director, server and cloud platforms, Microsoft UK, discusses Microsoft's vision for the cloud
24 Jun 2011

IT Leaders' Forum - IaaS & PaaS - Legal Focus

Alex Hamilton, director, Radiant Law, discusses the legal issues surrounding cloud adoption, including SLAs
24 Jun 2011

IT Leaders' Forum - IaaS & PaaS - CIO Panel

The lively CIO panel debate from Computing's recent IT Leaders' Forum event on Infrastructure and Platform as a Service
24 Jun 2011

IT Leaders' Forum - IaaS & PaaS - Chair's Welcome

Stuart Sumner, chairman of the IT Leaders' Forum, welcomes delegates to the IaaS & PaaS event
24 Jun 2011

Microsoft’s cloud BPOS suffers outage ahead of Office 360 launch

Gartner analyst argues that CIOs should have business continuity plans in place in case of outage
23 Jun 2011

Exclusive: IT workers get cold feet on cloud migration

Computing research shows increased scepticism on cloud move
22 Jun 2011

Computing invites UK business and technology leaders to discuss the real-world benefits of cloud computing

Computing hosted a series of discussions for IT leaders from a host of British companies and public sector organisations
20 Jun 2011

Evolution of the cloud

Cloud adoption is accelerating and the momentum driving its takeup is not likely to wane any time soon
20 Jun 2011

Highlights from Computing's cloud event

Catch up on events at Computing's recent IT Leaders' Forum on IaaS and PaaS
17 Jun 2011

Cloudcast: Why has cloud computing created such momentum

Question 6 of Cloudcast’s six week series puts this question to 18 senior IT Leaders
14 Jun 2011

IT Leaders Forum: Banning Facebook at work is 'strange' says Microsoft chief

'If you turned off Facebook at Google or Microsoft, I think half the staff would revolt' he says
09 Jun 2011