Microsoft today announced that in the second quarter of 2016 — the fourth quarter of the company’s 2016 fiscal year — compute usage on its Azure public cloud more than doubled year over year. Azure ...

Microsoft has fixed an issue with its Windows Azure Compute service that affected users worldwide, starting on Tuesday, and is working to completely resolve other affected cloud services. At 2:35 a.m.

Azure releases September 2025 updates with dual OS versions, enhanced VM management, improved security baselines, and ...

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Microsoft announced a few Azure milestones today and showcased developer options to tap into its new compute capabilities. Additionally, Microsoft offered a vision statement about its efforts to ...

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For certain kinds of modeling, simulation, and machine learning workloads, the advent of GPU coprocessors has been a watershed event. But as we have discussed before here at The Next Platform, there ...

Good news for businesses using Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform: their infrastructure bills may be shrinking come February. Microsoft announced that it will be permanently reducing the prices for its ...

Tigris has raised $25 million to expand its growing network of localized data storage centers — the storage layer for ...

Microsoft today announced that it has joined the Open Compute Project (OCP) and plans to share some of its Windows Azure datacenter designs as part of that effort. The announcement was delivered as ...

When rumors of Google getting into the infrastructure-as-a-service business began percolating (largely thanks to Om Malik) last week, I started writing this post in my head. I knew if Google announced ...