Cloud and virtualisation are related ideas, but they're not the same thing. To Microsoft the real benefit of its Azure cloud service is more than elasticity and scaling and economies of scale; it's ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced a preview of remote authentications into Windows-based Azure virtual machines (VMs) using Azure AD credentials. Apparently, this capability, in which IT pros use their ...

Microsoft announced a couple of Azure management improvements this week. The Azure Alerting capability has reached "general availability" status, meaning that Microsoft sees it as ready for commercial ...

The beta version of the v1.3 Virtual Machine (VM) Role lets you host a custom base virtual hard disk (VHD) image of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard or Enterprise Edition and, optionally, one or more ...

Microsoft is looking to make it easier to move existing Windows Server applications to the company’s Windows Azure cloud platform via virtual machine technology. The company unveiled this week Windows ...

Microsoft has recently announced that it is enabling Linux on Windows Azure, and working on allowing its customers to make virtual machines (VMs) persistent on its Windows Azure platform. This means ...