Microsoft Corp. is introducing new tools for its campaign to outflank cloud-computing rival Amazon.com Inc. by targeting big businesses that have balked at shifting their data to the cloud. The tools Microsoft unveiled Monday are aimed at what is perhaps the hottest part of the multibillion-dollar cloud market, the so-called hybrid cloud. Such systems let companies move some computing to cloud services while keeping control of data they need to hold closely.

Source: Wall Street Journal November 04, 2019 14:04 UTC