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• Microsoft offers credits for 'Leap Day' Azure outage

  By Tim Greene | 13 March, 2012 04:46

  To make up for a string of outages that were caused by a software bug in its Azure cloud services Microsoft is granting affected customers a 33% credit for the time they were left stranded during the Feb. 29 failure.

• Australian ISVs: The little guys taking on the world

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 23 May, 2011 16:24

  This is a story about Davids and Goliaths. The Davids are Australian ISVs who have big ambitions and the nerve and ability to take on the Goliaths – the big name IT companies around the world. ARN finds out why and how.

• Microsoft unleashes Windows Intune in Australia

  By Julia Talevski | 24 March, 2011 03:00

  Software giant, Microsoft, has commercially launched its Windows Intune cloud service, specifically catering for the SMB space.

• East River Software hunts for partners

  By Julia Talevski | 25 October, 2010 13:15

  Systems intelligence software developer, East River Software, is on the hunt for partners.

• Cloud investment explodes - overhype or future vision?

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 03 August, 2010 09:48

  When Microsoft all but demands its partners ‘cloud up,’ and Japanese telecommunications provider, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Group (NTT Group), makes a $US3.2 billion acquisition on the premise of developing its cloud capabilities, it is obvious that there is an incredible buzz about the cloud. But is it realistic? And what about the lingering concerns that Australia is not quite ready to live up to the hyperbole?

• IN DEPTH: Microsoft World Partner Conference 2010

  By ARN Staff | 14 July, 2010 13:59

  ARN's Matthew Sainsbury is in Washington, courtesy of Microsoft, for the company's World Partner Conference 2010. His reports plus those for IDG's American staff and slideshows are all part of this ARN special coverage of the conference.

• Infor to embrace Microsoft's Azure cloud

  By Chris Kanaracus | 13 July, 2010 06:38

  Infor on Monday will announce plans for applications running on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, deepening the vendors' already close partnership and adding momentum to the industry's shift away from on-premises ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.

• Muglia offers details on Microsoft Azure Appliance

  By Joab Jackson | 13 July, 2010 04:43

  On Monday, during the kickoff of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference being held this week in Washington D.C., Microsoft announced that it would be releasing a version of its Windows Azure cloud computing platform that can be run as part of an appliance offering.

• Microsoft offers security guidance for Azure cloud

  By Paul Krill | 15 June, 2010 07:35

  Microsoft began offering on Monday guidance intended to help developers make secure applications for the company's Windows Azure cloud platform.

• Microsoft exec: We and users win with cloud

  By Chris Kanaracus | 27 April, 2010 07:42

  Microsoft is firmly on the cloud-computing bandwagon and with good reason -- it can make more money by doing so, even as it helps customers cut costs, business division head Stephen Elop said at the Convergence conference in Atlanta on Sunday.

• Microsoft's Ballmer: 'For the cloud, we're all in'

  By Denise Dubie | 05 March, 2010 08:58

  Microsoft is betting the cloud will deliver it and its customers the most opportunities for innovation and development. And according to CEO Steve Ballmer, five key reasons are driving the company's confidence in - and technology strategy for - cloud computing in the coming years.

• Microsoft talks cloud computing security, plans to offer private cloud software

  By Jon Brodkin | 11 December, 2009 08:38

  With Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform set to go live on New Year's Day, the company is looking ahead to later in 2010 when it will unveil a new security structure for multi-tenant cloud environments as well as private cloud software based on the same technology used to build Azure.

• Realigning Microsoft Azure unit may boost innovation, squabbling

  By Eric Lai | 12 December, 2009 05:40

  Unifying Windows Azure with its on-premises counterpart Windows Server should hasten the rollout of new features in Microsoft Corp.'s enterprise cloud platform, but it also will pit Azure against Microsoft's other cloud services for the loyalty of a key customer base, says one independent Microsoft analyst.

• VeriSign ensures security in the cloud

  By Anuradha Shukla | 10 December, 2009 10:38

  VeriSign has been chosen to provide cloud-based security and authentication for the Windows Azure platform.

• Microsoft creates new server and cloud division

  By John Fontana | 10 December, 2009 06:44

  Microsoft has created a new division designed to bring its cloud and on-premises software development together and provide a consistent platform for corporate customers.