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June 24, 2014

‘Learning from cloud’ series looks at how to approach whether to go hybrid

Monday’s “Learning from cloud” blog series focuses on a question now facing every IT professional: “In a cloud first, mobile first world, how should my approach to infrastructure change?”

June 19, 2014

From the ‘cloud city,’ frontiers continue to expand in cloud computing

A post in the New York Times highlights how Seattle is a cloud-first city, and Microsoft a cloud-first company, of course, starting cloud computing some 20 years ago, writes Nayana Singh on the Windows Embedded blog.

June 12, 2014

Taxpayers in Mexico benefit from Microsoft cloud technology adoption

Thanks to cloud services, the Mexican tax administration system manages, on average, more than 16 million invoices daily, reaching a historic peak of 147 million per week.

June 9, 2014

Building cloud-powered and data-smart businesses is good for the insurance industry

At the upcoming annual IASA Conference in Indianapolis, Tony Jacob, managing director for Worldwide Insurance at Microsoft, will be meeting senior business and IT leaders from the insurance industry to discuss how cloud and big data technologies can help them better identify risks, drive innovation and increase speed to market – while dramatically reducing cost and complexity.

June 5, 2014

Survey shows that most small businesses feel the need to keep up with technology, but many have yet to adopt the cloud

Eighty-six percent of small businesses say keeping up with technology is important to their business, but 60 percent surveyed do not use cloud technologies. The survey, commissioned by Microsoft Corp. and conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs, also said 60 percent of these smaller businesses attribute increased revenue to technology, but 10 percent are not even familiar with the cloud.

May 30, 2014

The power of ‘and’

Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie shares his thoughts after Microsoft is dubbed a Leader in Gartner’s 2014 Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) Magic Quadrant report – making Microsoft the only public cloud vendor to be named a leader for both PaaS and IaaS.

May 29, 2014

Satya Nadella and Marc Benioff: Microsoft and salesforce.com Media Briefing

Remarks by Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, and Marc Benioff, salesforce.com Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Redmond, Washington, May 29, 2014

May 29, 2014

Microsoft, Salesforce join forces

May 28, 2014

In cloud infrastructure the biggest (Amazon) stays big, but Microsoft shows progress

May 22, 2014

Take a ride with Aston Martin – all the way to its cloud collaboration with Microsoft

For more than a century, Aston Martin has produced sports cars that have become iconic – this is James Bond’s car, after all – and that have inspired passion in both the people who drive them and the people who make them. Microsoft’s cloud technology, in turn, has inspired Aston Martin to simplify its IT platform, policies and procedures and build a central hub from which to manage its global operation.