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 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 ...

Microsoft doesn’t want to admit it, but a Gartner analyst says the vendor’s decision to offer Windows Server instances in the Azure cloud is opening a new competitive front against partner hosting ...

Microsoft this week announced a new query tool for IT departments to clean up their Azure role-based access control (RBAC) permissions. The tool is an "AuthorizationResources table" that's available ...

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 ...

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's Windows Azure cloud-based platform will soon allow users to operate a new persistent virtual machine feature. ZDNet.com reports via unnamed sources that this new feature will be tested in ...