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Microsoft in talks over cloud licensing complaint in the EU

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). It is really key for Microsoft to try to limit both economic and reputational damage from a possible investigation.”

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Microsoft doubles down on cloud data with new products, makes new appeal to Amazon’s rivals

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduces the company’s new cloud data products. Microsoft is rolling out new cloud technologies for wrangling, protecting and analyzing large amounts of corporate data, escalating its competition with Google, Snowflake and Amazon in the $25 billion global market for data analytics and business intelligence.

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Former AWS engineers raise $3M to take on tech giants with ‘world’s fastest spreadsheet’

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The Seattle startup that describes its product as the “world’s fastest spreadsheet” just raised $3 million to take on the likes of Microsoft and Google with a spreadsheet tool designed for complex analysis or big datasets. Fresen was a principal software engineer working on the S3 storage service.

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Microsoft and FedEx team up against Amazon with new tech and logistics partnership

GeekWire

Microsoft and FedEx will work together to develop new products and services under a multiyear technology and logistics partnership announced Monday morning. The newly announced partnership will rely heavily on Microsoft Azure, the No. Future plans could hit even more directly at Amazon’s core business.

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Amazon downsizes AWS in a fresh cost-cutting round

CIO Business Intelligence

In a fresh round of layoffs, Amazon is laying off hundreds in the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, the company faces intense competition in the cloud computing market, particularly from Microsoft, which has emerged as a formidable rival. Amazon Web Services, Technology Industry

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Nasce in Lombardia la prima cloud region di Microsoft in Italia

CIO Business Intelligence

Lo scorso lunedì, Microsoft ha annunciato di essere in procinto di lanciare la sua prima cloud region in Italia. L’iniziativa è parte del programma “Ambizione Italia” che Microsoft ha lanciato nel 2018. Microsoft è l’ultimo tra i grandi fornitori di servizi cloud pubblici [in inglese] ad aggiungere una regione in Italia.