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 ...

Following the expansion of its failover capabilities for Azure SQL Database earlier this month, Microsoft has now extended the disaster recovery options available to customers using Azure Site ...

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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 ...

Paul Schnackenburg examines the current storage options for Azure IaaS VMs, as well as the new offering, Ultra SSD, released in preview at Ignite 2018. Storage in public clouds has always been an ...

From how virtual machines can impact your Azure IaaS and Paas uptimes to what to never do, top cloud architect Peter De Tender offers his best tips and tricks for reaching 99.95 percent uptime by ...

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 ...