Microsoft promotes Azure, connected systems leaders

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Microsoft has made a series of recent moves in various divisions, including promotions in the company's Windows Azure group, Connected Systems Division and Server and Tools business unit.Microsoft has made a series of recent moves in various divisions, including promotions in the company's Windows Azure group, Connected Systems Division and Server and Tools business unit.

Amitabh Srivastava, Microsoft corporate vice president of Windows Azure, was promoted to senior vice president on March 2. Srivastava is known as the right hand man to Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie on the software giant's Windows Azure cloud computing effort.