The Azure Cloud is Microsoft’s latest operation at making data available to companies all over the world, regardless of their location. Microsoft has been working hard on making the Azure Cloud one of the standards in the Cloud technology industry. Over the past several months I have written about the companies that have moved to the Cloud or about some of the technologies that make Cloud operations possible. Here is a summary of some of those posts. They show how much effort is taking place to make the Azure Cloud the standard for data support and analysis.
Microsoft adds Hadoop for Large Data Processing
Summary: If you are an open source user of database structures, you are probably familiar with Hadoop. That is the Azure Cloud database framework that scales huge datasets over multiple clusters, distributed under the Apache v2 open source license.
The Movideo Move to Microsoft’s Azure Cloud
Summary: Microsoft’s continues to make headway in attracting customers and partners to the Azure Cloud. The latest is Movideo an online video platform, with a focus on delivering business outcomes through an end-to-end video solution
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Cloud Technology…Is it the Next Technology Bubble?
Summary: Microsoft commissioned IDC to analyze the impact that Cloud technology will have on jobs and economies. The figure below shows that job growth will reach a high level in three more years. But more than that this says something about the economies that will be created.
Azure and Office 365 for Government Operations
Summary: While Microsoft has recently cut prices on Windows Azure Storage, Microsoft also intends to add a government Cloud offering to its Office 365 line-up of services.
Microsoft Cuts Pricing on Windows Azure Storage and the Small Compute System
Summary: A month ago, Microsoft announced that it was lowering the price of SQL Azure and introducing a 100MB database option.
Active Directory on the Cloud?
Summary: Active Directory on the Cloud? Yep. That is Microsoft’s new move to make Cloud services more secure.
Microsoft’s New Cloud Promotional Offer
Summary: Microsoft’s push to getting more companies onto the Cloud met with another success. Techstars Cloud, and Microsoft announced an agreement whereby new entrepreneurial companies would be participating in Cloud operations.
Underwriters Laboratory is now using Office 365 Cloud services
Summary: How important is the Azure Cloud for business? For Underwriters Laboratory, the answer is very. They have begun deploying Microsoft Office 365,
Linux on the Microsoft Azure Cloud
Summary: Linux may not be dead after all. Microsoft is looking for software engineers to make Linux available on Azure, Microsoft Cloud system.
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More Companies Enter Azure – Office 365
Summary: Office 365 continues to grow in business circles. According to Microsoft over 90 percent of their Office 365 customers have less than 50 employees.
Will Azure Cloud Services be Microsoft’s New OS?
Summary: Microsoft makes the most popular OS in the world. That’s been true for over 30 years. But could it be that their best new market is the Cloud?
Linux and Azure Cloud Operations
Summary: Linux users will have something to cheer about vis-à-vis Microsoft Cloud. While Microsoft has been pushing many changes to its software and Cloud operations, it has not done much, if anything, about Linux.
Summary: Microsoft Updates to Azure Cloud Services were released on December 12. Azure is the Cloud service available to anyone or company that wants to move some operations to the Internet.
Viewing these posts should give you an idea of how widespread the Azure Cloud system is and how much it has grown.
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