Microsoft slashes Azure prices, introduces new basic tier

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	Microsoft slashes Azure prices, introduces new basic tier Microsoft is cutting prices of its Azure cloud services to match the prices of competitor Amazon Web Services in the latest in a price war in cloud services. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Why Web Site Performance Is an IT Imperative A slow or inefficient Web site can have a direct impact on your business. Recently, IDG Research explored the challenges enterprises face in delivering content across multiple devices. Find out how adjusting to these challenges while meeting performance objectives has become a top concern for senior IT managers. 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Learn More>> Intel plays defense against ARM with Cloudera stake Intel's $740 million investment in software company Cloudera will help sell more x86 chips in Hadoop installations, but it could also be a defensive move to maintain its server lead from the emerging threat posed by 64-bit ARM servers. Read More Fedora tips its hat to mobility, cloud, big data The latest release of Fedora, nicknamed "Heisenbug," is a step towards making Fedora a player in the mobile arena. Fedora 20 also includes more support for cloud, and this is also the first release that supports cheap, low-power ARM processors as a primary architecture, in addition to Intel and AMD chips. Read More How Google is reinventing cloud pricing Last week Google released a feature called "Sustained Use Discounts," the idea of which is that the more customers use Google's Cloud Platform, the less expensive it becomes. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Increasing the Value of Your Reports and Dashboards Learn how incorporating other analytical capabilities such as predictive modeling and visualization can increase the value of your reports and dashboards by providing insight from complex data or predicting a future outcome. Learn More! There's no bubble in business Wi-Fi, Aerohive CEO says Aerohive Networks sells not just enterprise Wi-Fi gear but also cloud-based software designed to make it easier to set up and manage a customer's entire wired and wireless network. Other wireless LAN vendors are moving in the same direction, including Cisco Systems, the biggest seller of enterprise Wi-Fi, which acquired Meraki Networks in 2012. Read More Nadella names Guthrie his successor to head Microsoft Cloud & Enterprise group Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has filled three important executive positions, as he continues putting his mark on the company he was chosen to lead about two months ago. Read More Canonical flip-flops on Ubuntu's controversial Amazon feature I like Canonical. I really and truly do. They do their own thing, pave their own trail. They take Ubuntu and re-work it to run on TVs, phones, and tablets. Any day now I expect them to announce Ubuntu for Toasters. And that is awesome. But sometimes Canonical makes me facepalm. Read More WHITE PAPER: Intigua Systems Management Virtualization Discover how virtualizing the management layer, by de-coupling agents from the underlying server infrastructure, eliminates the need to install physical agents on servers and makes ongoing management tasks such as provisioning and updating agents as simple as copying a single "virtual agent" file to all required servers. Read more. Learn More Microsoft scraps 'Windows-first' practice, puts Office on iPad before Surface As expected, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella today hosted a press conference where the company unveiled Office for iPad, breaking with its past practice of protecting Windows by first launching software on its own operating system. Read More Intel makes 'significant' investment in Hadoop company Cloudera Intel is investing in distributed computing software company Cloudera as it looks to tune more software to its x86 processors. Read More Amazon's WorkSpaces becomes generally available Amazon Web Services' hosted virtual desktops have become generally available, priced from US$35, but the company and its competitors have a lot of hurdles to overcome before this sort of technology is widely used by businesses. Read More Review of cloud's mega-week: Cisco, Google, Amazon and Microsoft all make big moves in the cloud It was a mega-week in the cloud for news from the big players. 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