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  Centrebet embarks on post-acquisition IT consolidation

  Online wagering operator, Centrebet, (ASX: CIL), is consolidating its IT infrastructure to reduce costs and remove system duplication following its $183 million takeover by UK-based rival, Sportingbet, in September last year.

  By Hamish Barwick | 23 April, 2012 13:11

  Tags: azure, Centrebet, online betting, problem gambling, Sportingbet, wagering

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  Microsoft offers credits for 'Leap Day' Azure outage

  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.

  By Tim Greene | 13 March, 2012 04:46

  Tags: azure, Azure outage, Microsoft, operating systems, software, Windows

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  Microsoft Azure designer talks up cloud licence transfers

  CIOs looking to move existing software assets into the cloud but unsure about the licensing arrangements should leverage credits and other transfer services to minimise the impact, says one of the designers of Microsoft’s Azure cloud service.

  By Rodney Gedda | 14 December, 2010 14:10

  Tags: azure, cloud computing, licensing, Microsoft, Scott Stewart

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  Infor to embrace Microsoft's Azure cloud

  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.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 13 July, 2010 06:38

  Tags: application development, applications, azure, business issues, cloud computing, Infor Global Solutions, internet, Internet-based applications and services, Microsoft, software

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  Muglia offers details on Microsoft Azure Appliance

  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.

  By Joab Jackson | 13 July, 2010 04:43

  Tags: azure, Bob Muglia, cloud computing, Infrastructure services, internet, managed services, Microsoft, microsoft azure, MS WPC, operating systems, software, system management, Windows, windows server

• Microsoft offers security guidance for Azure cloud

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

  By Paul Krill | 15 June, 2010 07:35

  Tags: applications, azure, Microsoft, security

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  Microsoft exec: We and users win with cloud

  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.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 27 April, 2010 07:42

  Tags: azure, cloud computing, CRM, Microsoft, SaaS

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  New Microsoft server chief preps cloud push

  Microsoft Australia’s director of its server business group, Phil Goldie, is preparing to work with enterprises on software deployment and licensing when its Azure cloud platform becomes available in April.

  By Rodney Gedda | 26 March, 2010 07:46

  Tags: azure, cloud computing, Microsoft, paas, SaaS

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

  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.

  By Denise Dubie | 05 March, 2010 08:58

  Tags: azure, cloud computing, Microsoft, steve ballmer

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

  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.

  By Jon Brodkin | 11 December, 2009 08:38

  Tags: azure, cloud, data centres, micrsoft

• Realigning Microsoft Azure unit may boost innovation, squabbling

  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.

  By Eric Lai | 12 December, 2009 05:40

  Tags: azure, cloud, Microsoft

• VeriSign ensures security in the cloud

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

  By Anuradha Shukla | 10 December, 2009 10:38

  Tags: azure, cloud, Microsoft, security, VeriSign, Windows

• Microsoft creates new server and cloud division

  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.

  By John Fontana | 10 December, 2009 06:44

  Tags: azure, cloud computing, Microsoft

• Microsoft ups cloud computing ante with Azure, 'Dallas'

  Microsoft announced that its Azure cloud computing platform will be launched into production on January 1st of 2010. Chief software architect Ray Ozzie also unveiled details of a cloud computing project, codenamed 'Dallas'.

  By Tony Bradley | 18 November, 2009 10:11

  Tags: azure, cloud computing, dallas, Microsoft

• Microsoft developer technologies take center stage at PDC

  With a full schedule on tap, the 2009 Microsoft PDC (Professional Developers Conference) next week will tout efforts ranging from the company's Windows Azure cloud platform to plans for programming languages

  By Paul Krill | 13 November, 2009 12:00

  Tags: azure, cloud computing, Microsoft