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• Kordia adds AWS Direct Connect to offerings

  Kordia New Zealand has announced availability of the AWS Direct Connect service for its customers, by which they can access scalable, pay-as-you-go cloud computing services.

• Report: Satya Nadella to be named Microsoft CEO; Gates out, too

  Microsoft's Cloud chief, Satya Nadella, will lead the company as its next chief executive, according to a report from Bloomberg.

• Kiwi service providers part of Microsoft's Cloud OS network

  Revera and Dimension Data are two Kiwi service providers who have signed up to become part of Microsoft’s Cloud OS network.

• NZ’s ISVs one of top adopters of the Azure platform: Microsoft

  New Zealand is one of the top-most adopters of the Windows Azure platform among independent software vendors (ISVs), and if indications are anything to go by, it might soon be one of the top enterprise adopters of the platform as well.

• Azure tops survey of cloud service providers

  Microsoft Windows Azure (Chicago datacentre) has topped the list of 25 cloud service providers ranked over one year’s global performance. Google Apps ranked second.

• Infor to embrace Microsoft's Azure cloud

  Infor on Monday will announce plans for applications running on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, deepening the vendors' already close partnership and adding momentum to the industry's shift away from on-premises ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.

• Azure gets closer with Australian launch

  Microsoft has launched its Azure cloud platform in Australia, letting developers deploy applications on the company's datacentres in North American, Europe and in the Asia Pacific.

• Cloud helps TicketDirect take on the multinationals

  Ten years ago, Dunedin-based TicketDirect broke into the ticketing market through a deal with the “House of Pain”, Dunedin’s famous Carisbrook stadium.

• Microsoft extends Windows 7, Azure to open source devs

  Microsoft has unveiled several open source initiatives to boost interoperability between Microsoft technologies, such as Windows 7, Windows Azure and Silverlight, and open source technologies that include the Eclipse tools platform and Java.
  Although the company has at times been viewed as the commercial opposite of the open source movement, these recent gestures to the open source community indicate Microsoft is willing to make moves to assist open source devotees build products that rely on Microsoft's products. Microsoft is working with Tasktop Technologies and Soyatec in projects and technologies.

• Local companies look to the cloud

  It’s still early days for cloud computing in New Zealand, but interest from local organisations is increasing, say two of the big players. Both IBM and Microsoft are preparing to compete directly in the space, which was previously dominated by Google’s App Engine and Amazon’s EC2.

• Microsoft's cloud identity platform on track

  Microsoft's identity platform for the cloud is on track and users will likely see another beta next month and final shipment before the end of the year, according to Microsoft.<br/>

• Microsoft: Enterprises will self-host Windows Azure someday

  Future versions of Windows Server will enable companies to efficiently manage and provide virtualized applications through the Web just like Microsoft's upcoming platform-as-a-service, Windows Azure, a company executive said this week.

• Microsoft's cloud extends desktop development

  A key developer of Microsoft's Azure platform was Microsoft corporate vice president Amitabh Srivistava, who discussed the effort with InfoWorld US editor in chief Eric Knorr and editor at large Paul Krill at the recent Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.

• Azure about building apps that 'scale out', says Ozzie

  While much will be said about Microsoft's cloud-computing strategy after its mammoth Professional Developers Conference last month, at the heart of Windows Azure is a fairly simple goal: inspire corporate developers to rethink the way they develop software so applications can take better advantage of the web.

• Should enterprises reconsider the cloud?

  With support for three of the major pillars of application development and deployment -- Oracle 11g, Microsoft SQL, and open source MySQL -- under its belt, Amazon.com appears to be anticipating a major move by the enterprise into the cloud.