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Azure Stack, Microsoft’s on-premises cloud service, is now available as a preview

A block diagram that is supposed to clarify what Azure Stack does and is. (credit: Microsoft)

Microsoft today released a preview of Azure Stack, a version of the Azure services and infrastructure that you can run in your own datacenters.

Azure Stack was announced at the Ignite conference last year. It's an Azure-flavored counterpart to OpenStack, offering enterprises...

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Steve Ballmer criticizes Microsoft cloud disclosures and app plan from cheap seats at annual meeting
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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dealt with his fair share of grumbling from investors during his 14 years at the helm, but now the tables have turned. While his successor, Satya Nadella, was busy fielding questions from investors during the company’s annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday, Ballmer was in the audience speaking critically of one of...
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CenturyLink loses two executives in shakeup at cloud unit
Jared Wray
Two key executives are leaving CenturyLink in a move that may show the telecom provider’s shifting attitude on the cloud. The departure of senior vice president of platform and application framework development Jared Wray and vice president of platform strategy and business development Jonathan King, first noted by Fortune, comes less than a year after Andrew Higginbotham left the company. Higginbotham and...
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