Azure

Windows Azure Opens Active Directory For General Availability As Identity Battle Heats Up
Alex Williams, techcrunch.com

Microsoft has opened its Active Direc­to­ry (AD) to gen­er­al avail­abil­i­ty on Win­dows Azure, giv­ing devel­op­ers access to the single-sign-on ser­vice for access to the suite of Microsoft ser­vices, third-party apps and SaaS providers.

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Microsoft Acquires Cloud Performance Management Service MetricsHub, Makes It Available For Free On Azure
Frederic Lardinois, techcrunch.com

Microsoft just announced that it has acquired Met­ric­sHub, a ser­vice that auto­mates cloud per­for­mance man­age­ment and helps its cus­tomers man­age their cloud ser­vices more effi­cient­ly. Met­ric­sHub par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Microsoft Azure…