Perplexity signs a deal with Microsoft; sources say the $750M, three-year commitment will let Perplexity deploy AI models through Microsoft's Foundry service
AI startup Perplexity signed a $750 million deal with Microsoft Corp. to use its Azure cloud service, spreading its business beyond longtime cloud partner Amazon.com Inc.
Microsoft and trade group CISPE agree a deal to settle CISPE's antitrust complaint; CISPE members can run software on Azure at prices equivalent to Microsoft's
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Source: Microsoft agreed to pay Inflection ~$650M when hiring its staff, mostly via a licensing deal that makes Inflection's models available for sale on Azure
Sources: LinkedIn shelves its effort, announced in 2019, to relocate its data centers out of its physical facilities and into Azure, a setback for Microsoft
- LinkedIn called off a plan to move technology to Microsoft Azure, a setback for its parent company, which is chasing Amazon Web Services.
Valtix, which helps companies secure application environments in AWS, Azure, and GCP, raises $12.5M from Cisco Investments, Northgate Capital, and others
Valtix has closed a $12.5 million strategic funding round from Cisco Investments, Northgate Capital and The Syndicate Group (TSG) …
Israeli startup Orca Security, which provides security for multi-cloud deployments on AWS, Azure, and GCP, raises $20M Series A led by GGV Capital
Orca Security, an Israeli cloud security firm that focuses on giving enterprises better visibility into their multi-cloud deployments on AWS …
Salesforce says it will use Microsoft's Azure for its Marketing Cloud service, signaling a thaw in a complicated relationship
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Salesforce says it will use Microsoft's Azure for its Marketing Cloud service, signaling a thaw in a complicated relationship
- Salesforce will deploy its Marketing Cloud service on Microsoft's Azure public cloud infrastructure. — Salesforce already uses Amazon Web Services …
SAP has struck a three-year deal where Microsoft will sell a bundle of SAP cloud services directly to customers who run SAP on Azure
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Microsoft acquires jClarity, which provides performance tuning tools for Java developers, to help optimize Java workloads on Azure
Microsoft Corp. today divulged that it has acquired jClarity Ltd., a British provider of tools for Java software projects.