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(credit: Julien GONG Min / Flickr) Microsoft has posted the results of the fourth quarter of its 2018 financial year, running up until June 30, 2018. Revenue was $ 30.1 billion (up 17 percent year-on-year), operating income was $ 10.4 billion (up 35 percent), net income was $ 8.8 billion (a rise of 10 percent), […]
Enlarge (credit: Ana Ulin) Azure Container Instances (ACI), which let you create Linux and Windows containers without having to manage the virtual machines they run on, are now generally available. ACI brings serverless principles to containerized applications. Serverless computing, pioneered by Amazon’s Lambda and found on Azure as Functions, is designed to defer all system […]
When companies talk about moving to the cloud, they’re usually bringing their workloads from an on-premises datacenter to a public cloud environment, not switching clouds. But GitLab, a startup that provides developer tools, announced this week that it’s abandoning Microsoft Azure for Google Cloud Platform. GitLab chose to move because…Read More
Spacefaring scientist Synch crash lands on an unknown planet with his robot companion Noide. Things are taking an interesting turn when they are drawn into a war – featuring swords and sorcery. Fantasy and Science Fiction don’t always mix that well, but Azure Saga: Pathfinder seems to make this work just fine. Mechanically, Azure Saga: […]
Microsoft has acquired PlayFab, a startup which accelerates game development by handling live operations and other tasks so developers can concentrate on making their games. PlayFab runs backend services for 1,200 cloud-connected games with more than 700 million players, and now Microsoft will integrate PlayFab’s tools into its Azure cloud service. “PlayFab’s tools are designed […]
Microsoft continued its support for the Kubernetes open source project today, with the unveiling of several enhancements to systems that are designed to make it easier for developers to connect that system with the tech titan’s Azure cloud platform. Kubernetes is an open source system initially released by Google that’s designed to help manage the […]
(credit: Julien GONG Min) Microsoft has posted its results for the first quarter of its 2018 financial year. Revenue was $ 24.5 billion, an increase of 12 percent year on year, with an operating income of $ 7.7 billion, up 15 percent, a net income of $ 6.6 billion, up 16 percent, and earnings per […]
Enlarge / Cray XC50 supercomputer. (credit: Cray) Microsoft will add Cray supercomputers to its Azure cloud computing service to handle the needs of those with high performance computing (HPC) workloads. Cloud computing systems like Azure can be used to build large cluster-like machines for high performance distributed workloads. Combined with FPGAs and GPUs, this makes […]
Microsoft has begun adding Availability Zones to its Azure cloud platform, providing customers with an additional tool to make sure their applications stay operational. The zones are sets of data centers within a single cloud region that are geographically isolated from one another. Users can replicate workloads across zones that need higher redundancy but will […]
A block diagram that is supposed to clarify what Azure Stack does and is. (credit: Microsoft) After being announced in 2015, Microsoft’s Azure Stack—which offers a wide range of Azure services for on private, on-premises hardware—is now available. Azure Stack is positioned as a major part of Microsoft’s hybrid cloud offering. It offers the same management […]
