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LinkedIn has opted not to proceed with its plan to relocate its data center technology to Microsoft's Azure cloud.

Microsoft Corporation announced the preview of its new Azure Government Department of Defense (DoD) regions last Thursday.

Amazon web services has launched a new Scheduled Reserved Instances, which would allow customers to reserve capacity on a periodic basis with a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule for one-year term. Moreover, this new model enables clients to save 10 percent.

Netflix released its Continuous Delivery platform as an open source software this Monday. Spinnaker, is a replacement of their old software development tools, Asgard. With Spinnacle, Netflix can launch their streaming video service on multi-cloud platform. Previously, Netflix was fully reliance on Amazon Web Service to deliver its service.

In a bid to gain traction over its competitors, American software giant is rebranding its open cloud platform 'Windows Azure' to 'Microsoft Azure.' according to sources familiar with the matter cited by ZDNet.

Oracle signed a contract with Microsoft to permit Java developers to make applications on Microsoft's servers.