Microsoft

Weather may be hot in Phoenix and Bahrain, but so is the cloud business opportunity.

As the unique system LinkedIn engineers built over the years gets replaced with a public cloud, how much of the innovation will Microsoft retain?

Key features features being added and support from traditional vendors growing, the disaggregated-network OS may be ready to grow beyond hyperscale platforms.

CEO Nadella is working to keep up a steady flow of cloud deals, seeking to center strategy on web services and narrow the gap with AWS.

Azure expands the number of ways enterprises can use its global network.

Microsoft Corp. has what may sound like a counter-intuitive request: Please try to hack into Azure more often.

Oracle’s decision also is a maneuver meant to preserve the company’s lucrative database business and make its software applications more attractive to companies interested in moving more of their information technology needs to cloud services like...