Microsoft Corp.’s Build conference in Seattle this week will launch several enhancements to the company’s Azure public cloud. Azure Compute Fleet is a new service in preview intended to simplify the ...

Back when Microsoft first launched Azure’s virtual machines, there were only a handful of default server sizes you could use. The question you had to ask yourself then was a simple one: Is there a ...

Microsoft today announced the "general availability" of its Accelerated Networking technology for Azure virtual machines, which is available for use with both Linux- and Windows-based VMs. General ...

Microsoft Azure users looking to find just the right virtual machine configurations for their workloads now have another option to choose from as the company’s latest Lsv2-series virtual machines are ...

Last month, Microsoft introduced a number of security enhancements for Azure, and also unveiled reserved capacity offerings for six more Azure services. Today, the tech giant has announced the preview ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Microsoft has a long history of turning its internal tools into products, especially as part of Azure. That’s not surprising: The company is building and running the same cloud-native applications as ...

Microsoft is announcing a couple of updates to its Azure cloud computing service today that, among other things, include the launch of a new variant of its performance-optimized G-type virtual ...

Everything you need to know about how to select, deploy, optimize and more when it comes to managing your virtual machines in Microsoft Azure. In last month's column I covered the basic step-by-step ...