Microsoft Tuesday announced the acquisition of a cloud computing orchestration firm, Cycle Computing, that's intended to help bolster its Azure cloud platform. Greenwich, Conn.-based Cycle Computing ...

Microsoft is positioning the deal, announced on August 15, as a way for it to enable its customers to use high-performance computing and other "Big Computing" capabilities in the public cloud. From ...

Microsoft is buying Cycle Computing in a move to accelerate high-performance computing (HPC) in the cloud. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cycle Computing’s software makes computation in the ...

Microsoft has acquired Cycle Computing for an undisclosed and likely non-material amount. Cycle has created cloud configuration, provisioning and optimization workflow software that makes it easier ...