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  IN PICTURES: Microsoft Ignite 2015 Pt 1 (+ 25 photos)

  The Gold Coast Convention Centre played host to Microsoft’s Ignite Conference. Partners and customers came from all over the country to hear about new products and features for Azure, Office 365, Surface, CRM online and others. Photos by Chris Player who traveled to the Gold Coast as a guest of Microsoft.

  IN PICTURES: Microsoft Ignite 2015 Pt 1 (+ 25 photos)

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News about azure

• Microsoft launches Azure analytics and data services

  Azure Synapse Analytics was first announced in November 2019

• APAC to make up a third of 2025 global telco cloud revenue

  Global telco cloud revenue is expected to grow at a five-year compound annual growth rate of 27 per cent.

• AWS storms ahead as Q3 global cloud market surges

  Cloud giant made up 21 per cent of the overall growth in cloud spending for the quarter year-on-year

• Azure steers Microsoft to Q1 revenue of US$37B

  Microsoft’s public cloud service by grew 48 per cent

• Microsoft launches Azure Modular Datacentre

  Will allow cloud computing capabilities in hybrid or “challenging” environments.

• Azure Databricks previews Proton query engine

  Microsoft and Databricks say the vectorised query engine written in C++ accelerates Apache Spark workloads by up to 20x

Interviews about azure

• ​Trans-Tasman first as Softsource seals Microsoft Azure Hybrid Cloud approval

  “Multi-cloud services are redefining how businesses think and adopt cloud computing."

• ​On another level as Datacom achieves Tier 1 status in Microsoft CSP program

  “This credential is a key part of Datacom’s strategy to be the leading cloud partner for the enterprise."

• ​Profile: Nicki Bowers, managing director, Kloud

  The Kloud boss discusses its founding, her personal growth into IT and the company’s boost into becoming one of Microsoft’s leading Cloud partners. What next?

• Profile: Breeze CEO Nicki Page

  Talks the channel's 2015 transition, key Cloud projects and getting women ahead

• Profile: Microsoft’s Phil Goldie

  Microsoft's partner boss discusses life, Cloud, wine and M&A.

• Ray Ozzie steers Microsoft into the cloud

  In an interview at PDC, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie talks Windows Azure, cloud computing, and the company's future plans

Features about azure

• Cisco grows cloud menu, brings Microsoft Azure Stack into UCS

  Cisco integrates Microsoft Azure Stack into its Unified Computing System.

• Rackspace is cuting 6% of its workforce

  Cuts come about 3 months after the managed hosting and cloud provider went private

• Deutsche Bank: Nearly a third of finance workloads could hit cloud in 3 years

  Big banks’ public cloud use will grow from “very low” to “material” in the coming years, Deutsche Bank says

• Which Cloud hosting partner is most likely to win your business?

  Which tech giant is most likely to win significant cloud hosting projects? Amazon Web Services? Microsoft? IBM?

• Australian firms embrace Microsoft Azure - are Kiwis next?

  "Deploying our solutions with Microsoft allows us to build on that momentum with a trusted global partner."

• INSIGHT: Hyperscale public Clouds: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em

  “Bigger players in the market are less willing to concede defeat to AWS and Azure. Such is the case with VMware and Google."