Microsoft's Windows Azure team has typically held its momentum and sales numbers fairly close to the vest. But this week at the TechEd conference, execs did share a couple of interesting data points.

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'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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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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) ...