Under Microsoft, LinkedIn's Big Cloud Plans Face Uncertain Future

"Microsoft's $26.2 billion LinkedIn acquisition hangs a big question mark over LinkedIn's ambitious plans to migrate its infrastructure to a private cloud. (See Microsoft Nabs LinkedIn for $26.2B.) While both LinkedIn Corp. and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) are cloud providers with a strong commitment to open data center design and networking, they each have their own infrastructures. It's still unclear what Microsoft is going to do with LinkedIn's data center and network foundation, and whether the work LinkedIn engineers have done on their redesign will last. (See Microsoft & LinkedIn: Marriage Made in the Cloud.)"