Windows Azure Storage has entered the cloud price wars with a drop in pricing that could be as much as 28 percent for some customers. The pricing goes into effect December 12th. The drop, which ...

The cloud-storage pricing wars just keep going and going. The latest to trim prices is Microsoft, following similar back-to-back moves by Amazon and Google. On December 5, Microsoft announced its ...

This is the third article in our Windows Azure guide series, aimed at helping you understand the intricacies of Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform. Subsequent to the Spring Update released in ...

Microsoft this week rolled out a preview of a new georedundant option as part of its Windows Azure Storage service. The new "read access-geographically redundant storage" option is currently available ...

Microsoft's Windows Azure BLOB storage performed significantly better in a shootout among five leading providers of public cloud infrastructure services, including last year's runaway winner Amazon ...

There’s “the cloud” and then there’s Windows Azure. We tested the available production-level features in Microsoft’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, and found that Azure is similar in many ways ...

Both are equally good cloud storage mechanisms -- here's the pros and cons of each so you can make the best decision for your projects. I find many of my customers and colleagues have a hard time ...

Microsoft, not content with battling Google in cloud productivity software, is now officially hell-bent on knocking Amazon Web Services off its perch in the cloud infrastructure-as-a-service market.

Microsoft is making available to testers a beta of Windows Azure Drive (formerly known as XDrive), which will allow them to create automatic backups of Windows applications that they may want to move ...

The cuts will be in the areas of block blob storage and disk/page blob storage pricing, and are scheduled to take effect on March 13. Microsoft gives developers numerous price breaks to develop on its ...