Microsoft's new Azure Container Instances (ACI) introduces a way to spin up workloads with the precise amount of CPU cores and memory needed on demand, use them for as little as a few seconds and ...

At the heart of the modern cloud is a tension between two different philosophies: IaaS, where you build a virtual infrastructure on a fabric of host systems managed by a cloud provider, and PaaS, ...

Microsoft is adding another new Azure service to its roster -- one that will enable users to create and deploy containers without having to hassle with managing underlying virtual machines. This new ...

Solidifying its software container stance, Microsoft has announced the "very first service of its kind in the cloud" called Azure Container Instances. A preview for Linux containers is now available.

One of the attractions of containers is the ability to spin them up nearly instantly when a cloud application needs more capacity. Much of the promise of the Microsoft Azure cloud similarly relates to ...

The “container as a service” lets you rapidly create and launch containerized applications, including from Kubernetes, without any overhead and with an easily scriptable set of commands Azure is ...

Project Teleport was created to decrease the startup time of containers on the Azure cloud platform, being especially useful in serverless environments. It's headed by Steve Lasker, program manager ...

Microsoft updated its Azure Container Storage platform promising the trifecta of higher performance, lower latency, and improved resource efficiency for Kubernetes-based storage needs. Azure Container ...