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Microsoft is making available a preview of a "="" service"=""> to compete with AWS Lambda. Microsoft is open sourcing the runtime for Azure Functions, said Microsoft's chief of Cloud and Enterprise, ...

The cloud changed IT forever. And then containers changed the cloud. And then Kubernetes changed containers. And then microservices usurped monoliths, and so it goes in the cloudscape. Microsoft's ...

Microsoft has been a member of the Open Compute Project since 2014, donating many of the specifications for its Azure data centers to the project. It’s where Microsoft develops its Olympus servers and ...

Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic have formed a partnership that blends new investments with a large multiyear cloud commitment, tightening ties among three major players in artificial intelligence. The ...

For certain kinds of modeling, simulation, and machine learning workloads, the advent of GPU coprocessors has been a watershed event. But as we have discussed before here at The Next Platform, there ...

At its Inspire 2017 conference this week, Microsoft unveiled a slew of different enterprise-focused announcements, among which is the creation of Microsoft 365, a service which combines Windows 10, ...

When rumors of Google getting into the infrastructure-as-a-service business began percolating (largely thanks to Om Malik) last week, I started writing this post in my head. I knew if Google announced ...

Good news for businesses using Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform: their infrastructure bills may be shrinking come February. Microsoft announced that it will be permanently reducing the prices for its ...