TechCrunch - Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, got off to a slow start when it launched in early 2010. It’s clearly gaining momentum now, though. According to Microsoft’s own data, Azure’s storage service, which competes directly with Amazon’s S3, now stores over 4 trillion objects.
Microsoft is planning to boost Azure’s working by joining hands with General Electric
Microsoft thinks its Project Natick submarine datacenters could be the answer to cleaner, low latency cloud services in the future.
Microsoft has long said it would match AWS's prices for compute, storage and bandwidth. Earlier this month, Amazon dropped the price of some of its general purpose, compute- and memory-optimized EC2 machines. It doesn’t come as a major surprise then that Microsoft is now also dropping the prices for some of its virtual machines by between 10 and 17 percent.
