V3 posted a story that Microsoft has acquired application management software firm BlueStripe

"More and more, businesses are turning to applications to drive innovation and gain competitive advantage," said Mike Neil, general manager for enterprise cloud at Microsoft.

"To support this explosion of applications, agile cloud development environments and more componentised architectures and micro-services are growing exponentially.

"Applications and data are being spread across on-premise data centres and private and hosted clouds as a result.

  Microsoft acquires application management software firm BlueStripe