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Microsoft Buys Deis to Compete With Google, Amazon (MSFT, AMZN)

Microsoft’s (MSFT ) drive to close in on Amazon’s ( AMZN ) dominance of the lucrative  cloud hosting  market continues to gain momentum. The Redmond-based tech giant confirmed that it paid an undisclosed amount to  acquire  San Francisco software  startup  Deis, meaning that Microsoft’s Azure cloud service will now be equipped with increasingly popular container technologies. Deis’ open source tool uses Kubernetes, a sophisticated software that enables developers to build codes in a virtual box that can easily be shared and moved between applications and across clouds. The technology, which was originally developed by Google ( GOOG ), is popular with businesses because it allows them to automate the deployment, scaling and management of applications better than ever before. “Deis gives developers the means to vastly improve application agility, efficiency and reliability through their Kubernetes container management technologies,” Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executiv