The most significant update yet to Microsoft's Windows Azure service will bring long-awaited Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities and support for Linux instances to the cloud platform.

In this year's annual ranking of Iaas providers, AWS and Azure are the only leaders but Gartner says Amazon still has the most advanced and reliable service.

The IaaS addition completes Microsoft's public cloud service offerings with Windows Azure, which had its debut three years ago as Microsoft's platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud offering. "Microsoft ...

Although research firm Gartner Inc. listed both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as leaders in its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) report, AWS came out as the top dog. Microsoft, of ...

In a recent announcement, Microsoft released details about its public preview for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) disaster recovery using Azure Site Recovery (ASR). Using the ASR service, organizat ...

The OpenStack Foundation and Microsoft have released major updates to their cloud platforms and frankly there’s nothing really new or exciting here – which is a good thing. Sure, there were ...

Microsoft Azure, originally a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, only expanded into IaaS in April 2013, making it seven years younger than AWS. Its PaaS and IaaS offerings “operate and feel ...

Built in security controls in a shared responsibility model can lead to confusion on who holds responsibility in the ‘Infrastructure –as-a-Service’ (IaaS) concept. In this webinar, we will look at ...

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