The thing's designed to make it easy to connect IoT devices to the cloud as well as allowing bidirectional communication, with device to cloud telemetry and cloud to device commands, says the IT giant.
Customers in Japan, the US and Brazil were worst affected by outages that hit all facets of the cloud service - and which made complete parts of the service unavailable for hours at a time.
BT and Microsoft have come together to offer consumers a secure bypass through the public Internet to Microsoft's Azure cloud service - offering increased stability and security.
The investment banking firm thinks the new core businesses of Azure, Windows and Office have 'righted a wrong' when it comes to MSFT's strategy.
Coventry City Council is in the process of increasing income and simultaneously making savings with the help of the cloud.
And you won't just be getting free storage: successful start up applicants will also get 24x7 support and access to Google’s technical expertise, promises the company.
A failure of Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform, which occurred on 19 November, was caused by an operator error, Microsoft announced on its Azure blog on Wednesday.
The firm’s premier public cloud offering had enhanced malware protection and a range of improvements that make disaster recovery cheaper and easier for enterprises.
Azure’s pricing has been cut across a number of different sectors with compute prices down by as much as 35 per cent and storage levies reduced by up to 65 per cent.
CEO Satya Nadella told a gathering in San Francisco that the firm will allow companies and academics to use its cloud computing and research apps to fight the disease.
Microsoft has announced that its cloud infrastructure is ready to accept government clients, particularly US public sector customers in federal, state and local organisations.
Microsoft might have reported its biggest loss ever thanks to the Nokia acquisition, but has simultaneously reported great revenue in the cloud front.
Oracle CEO Safra Catz made some interesting but confusing statements to the press after she revealed the company's latest quarter financial reports, observers contend.
Microsoft made $25.7 billion (£17.9bn) in revenue in Q2 of 2016, according to the company's latest earnings report, as Windows Phone continues to struggle - but the firm's tablet is doing pretty well.
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