Microsoft to provide cloud, tools for dealing with Ebola

Microsoft said Monday that it will provide cloud-computing and research applications to medical researchers working on Ebola.
“One of the things tomorrow morning we’re going to do is make available Azure computer power to the research community,â€‌ Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella said at a presentation in San Francisco, California.
Azure is Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform, essentially a group of data centers that allow users to access large amounts of data remotely over the Internet.
“In addition we have some tools that Microsoft researchers built to be able to do vaccine discovery, so we want to take all of that and make it available for the research community,â€‌ Nadella said.