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Founded in Albuquerque in April 1975 by the famous duo of founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft is today one of the biggest global IT companies. More than five decades after its inception, the company is now the world's third most valuable enterprise by market cap.

Computer software, personal computers and consumer electronics are the core business of Microsoft, but the company is also focused on cloud computing services and video games as well.
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Microsoft makes security offerings available to nation states and law enforcement

Tue, 25th Sep 2018
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Microsoft aims to empower IT to unlock the security capabilities of the intelligent cloud to tip the scales in the cyber war.
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Orange reveals goal to become global player in multi-cloud services

Wed, 19th Sep 2018
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Fresh off its acquisition of Basefarm, the France-based integrated comms provider is looking to make waves around the world in multi-cloud services.
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Digital Realty lures in two new senior exec job appointments

Fri, 14th Sep 2018
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In another game of tech company musical chairs, Digital Realty has poached execs from Microsoft and Blue Shield to fill in its CIO and CISO roles.
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Teraco: Digital transformation will be defined by the race to the edge

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Edge computing is undoubtedly one of the buzzwords of choice within data centre circles at the moment – up there with AI, IoT, and gender imbalances.
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Data centre infrastructure revenue at all-time high – hybrid cloud the driver

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Dell EMC, Microsoft, HPE, and Cisco (among others) are all profiting from a burgeoning market that has no signs of slowing.
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Azure outage postmortem: Microsoft reveals what happened and why

Wed, 12th Sep 2018
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Headlines around the world have been shouting about Azure's outage - here's MIcrosoft's postmortem on the matter.
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Cloudera launches new data warehousing for hybrid cloud

Wed, 29th Aug 2018
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Cloudera analytics general manager Anupam Singh says hybrid is the new norm for data warehouses, leaving first-gen facilities behind.
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Hyperscale data centre CAPEX up 59% - but dominated by usual suspects

Tue, 28th Aug 2018
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In the first half of this year more than US$53b has been spent on hyperscale data centre development, with the bulk of that from just 5 companies.
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Dell EMC continues to ramp up cloud-enabled portfolio

Tue, 28th Aug 2018
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It is boosting the cloud capabilities of platforms, infrastructure solutions, consumption model and services to help customers leverage multi-cloud st.
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EMEA leading global cloud adoption race – but it's not all good news

Thu, 23rd Aug 2018
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A new report has revealed cloud adoption is rife in EMEA, but despite this, most organisations lack even the most basic security tools.
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'Fascinating' vendor cloud battle ongoing in healthy SaaS market

Wed, 22nd Aug 2018
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It hasn't been around for long, but Synergy Research Group says the enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) can now be considered mature.
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AvePoint MD says Microsoft's record earnings due to focus on cloud

Tue, 14th Aug 2018
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With Azure's revenue surging 89 percent over the year, it's clear Microsoft is placing more emphasis on the cloud with DX a priority.
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Microsoft livestreams underwater life near Scotland data centre

Fri, 10th Aug 2018
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Microsoft announced that it had launched an underwater data centre in Scotland, but who knew that it would be so attractive to fish?.
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Santa Cruz Seaside Company modernises its data center with Cohesity

Thu, 2nd Aug 2018
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Santa Cruz Seaside Company overhauls IT infrastructure with Cohesity, simplifying data management and backup processes for their iconic amusement park.
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Gartner - IaaS public cloud services market grew 29.5% in 2017

Thu, 2nd Aug 2018
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Amazon is still on top, but Alibaba's investment strategy is giving the company huge potential for global growth.
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Datacom report revenue growth despite overall loss

Mon, 30th Jul 2018
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Datacom Group reports 9.3% revenue growth to NZ$1.27bn for FY2018, marking 20 years of continuous revenue growth.
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Battle in the cloud: AWS still on top but Google is starting to flex

Fri, 27th Jul 2018
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AWS remains the top cloud infrastructure provider, but rival Microsoft Azure is growing faster and closing the market share gap, according to Canalys.
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Competition's heating up: Google unveils hybrid cloud solution

Thu, 26th Jul 2018
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It's clear that this release from Google is part of an attempt to bolster its hybrid cloud strategy amidst fierce rivalry.
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Microsoft Cloud drives record fourth quarter results

Fri, 20th Jul 2018
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Microsoft reports impressive Q2 results with revenue of $30.1bn, up 17%, and operating income of $10.4bn, up 35%.
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Microsoft Dynamics inner circle expands with the addition of Empired

Fri, 20th Jul 2018
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Empired joins the elite 1% of Microsoft Dynamics partners, gaining exclusive executive support, as recognised at the annual Inspire conference in Las Vegas.