The software is now easy to deploy across all the major cloud providers, positioned as mission control for deploying containers and applications at massive scale

Microsoft gets into the cloud data warehousing game emphasizing flexibility and tuning above and beyond competitor AWS and its Redshift

AWS shows healthy revenue growth and turns profit, but data center costs across cloud market are enormous and growing

While they don't have the scale and buying power of Microsoft, smaller enterprise data center operators can still benefit from some key concepts used by the giant's infrastructure team

Real-time cloud analytics service meant to simplify interpreting data and removing the costly barrier to entry for sophisticated analytics services for the Internet of Things and other domains

Analyst reports show competitors gaining ground on leaders in the space

Microsoft, Cisco, Dell among founders of group aiming to redesign standard switch to increase energy efficiency

Cloud providers are going after developers, and developers are embracing containers.

Microsoft extends contract with Chinese data center service provider

Bundles existing and new cloud application development services into a suite