Latest Azure publications

Companies announce new hybrid solution developed by third-party cloud service provider Google has announced a new partnership with VMware that will simplify the running of VMware workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As part of the partership, GCP will now fully support VMware Cloud Foundation, the company’s system to enable hybrid cloud deployment. Specifically, VMware’s… Read More

Smaller and niche providers continue to lose share of IaaS market Gartner has released its annual infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market analysis for 2018, and to no great surprise, the usual suspects continue to dominate. In order of market share, the familiar faces of Amazon, Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM top the IaaS market… Read More

B2B social media giant finally makes the jump to Azure LinkedIn has announced it is finally migrating workloads from its own data centres to Microsoft Azure, three years after Microsoft acquired the company for $27bn. Since the acquisition, the B2B social media platform has made limited use of Azure services, preferring to operate its own… Read More

Despite cloud growth, Xbox hardware revenue declined by almost half, the company revealed in its latest quarterly results Microsoft has put its latest financial results success down to deep partnerships, despite a slowdown in sales of the Xbox. The firm reported total revenue of 33.7 billion dollars (£26.7 billion) for the last three months, up… Read More

Organizations can now seamlessly connect Azure services to Oracle Cloud services Microsoft and Oracle have announced a new cloud partnership that will see Azure and Oracle Cloud interconnect, enabling users of both platforms to migrate data and workloads between the two. Aside from direct connectivity, the partnership includes identity and access management interoperability, enabling users… Read More