Here's a look at how the cloud leaders stack up, the hybrid market, and the SaaS players that run your company as well as their latest strategic moves. Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's comprehensive ...

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 ...

Microsoft unveiled new capabilities for Azure that move the cloud offering from a platform as a service into the competitive landscape of infrastructure as a service, while embracing open-source ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn everything you need to know about two of the leading cloud-based infrastructure as a service providers, including how ...

Microsoft has taken Windows Azure Infrastructure Services from pre-release to general public availability, packing some big guns to compete with Amazon’s popular offerings. The news comes just as the ...

Microsoft on Tuesday made a flurry of Windows Azure-related announcements, including the general availability of Windows Azure IaaS (infrastructure as a service), with new VMI (virtual machine image) ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the leader in ...

While we use Azure SQL (PaaS) anywhere it is feasible, we have applications that just aren't supported on Azure SQL (PaaS) or we have a need for more performance than the shared nature of the PaaS ...