Microsoft is pulling the plug on a new model of deploying and hosting apps for SharePoint that relied on the company’s Azure platform. The goal of the Autohosted Apps Preview program was to offer ...

Up until recently, relatively few of Microsoft own products or services were running on the company's Windows Azure operating system. Some of Live Mesh was on it. The Holm energy-tracking app was an ...

Countless industry studies have been published confirming something many of us already know -- content volume and diversity are increasing rapidly in organizations of all sizes. This rapid expansion ...

Microsoft officials shared more specifics on the first cloud-hosted version of one of its four ERP products via a blog post on October 13. Earlier this year, the Softies said that the company is ...

At the heart of the modern cloud is a tension between two different philosophies: IaaS, where you build a virtual infrastructure on a fabric of host systems managed by a cloud provider, and PaaS, ...

Windows Azure Platform is the cloud offering from Microsoft that encompasses many independent services for compute, storage, networking, monitoring and reporting among others. IT professionals ...

Microsoft on Monday announced its "Azure Virtual Desktop" (AVD) service, which is the new name for its existing Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service. Windows Virtual Desktop, commercially launched in ...

People use “cloud” as a buzzword when describing either the Internet or an intranet in association with some type of service or application offering. When you hear the term “public cloud,” think of ...