Microsoft launched Windows Azure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) options on April 16. The service is now commercially available. The move adds to Microsoft's Windows Azure platform-as-a-service ...

At its Professional Developers Conference this week, Microsoft made the long-awaited debut of its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution, under the guise of the “VM-role” putting the service in ...

We are looking at moving our SP 2013 into Azure's IaaS. I was just curious if anyone had any "gotchas" they ran across or any pearls of wisdom they could share with their experiences? Our initial hope ...

For the third straight year, Microsoft Azure ranks just behind Amazon Web Services in the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s annual “Magic Quadrant” ranking of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) ...

Although research firm Gartner Inc. listed both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as leaders in its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) report, AWS came out as the top dog. Microsoft, of ...

Microsoft's Windows Azure team rolled out last week another bunch of updates and new features for Microsoft's cloud platform. Buried among the announcements was a new virtual-machine agent component ...

Over the last three months I've looked at how to deploy VMs to Azure, how to pick the right virtual machine (VM) size and other optimizations, followed by network and security best practices. And ...

Analyst firm cites ‘deep investments’ and “innovative roadmap” as crucial factors in Microsoft’s market standing Dubai, United Arab Emirates – August 17, 2016. Gartner has identified Microsoft Azure ...

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It’s time to bid farewall to Microsoft Azure’s humble beginnings as a mere PaaS. The big Redmond machine is lifting the curtain on previews of new services and updates today, aimed at injecting a ...