BlackRock's Aladdin investment management platform to be hosted on Microsoft's cloud

NEW YORK (Reuters) - BlackRock Inc, the world's largest asset manager, has partnered with Microsoft Corp to have its Aladdin investment and risk management system hosted on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, the companies said on Tuesday.The migration to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform will take place over many months and Aladdin users are not expected to see any impact in the near term, BlackRock said."Aladdin infrastructure deployed on Microsoft Azure’s cloud platform will provide..