Microsoft has been developing a set of tools to help manage Azure-hosted VMs for some time now under its Project Flash banner ...

Microsoft launched Windows Azure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) options on April 16. The service is now commercially available. The move adds to Microsoft's Windows Azure platform-as-a-service ...

Second much of the PaaS services on Azure span PaaS and IaaS deployments letting you easily mix VM role and Worker role components in the same service; sharing the same network configuration ...

Extending the disaster recovery options for its Azure cloud platform, Microsoft has unveiled the ability to cross-region replicate VMs and applications in IaaS implementations via Azure Site Recovery.

In addition to virtual machines, Microsoft has also released Windows Azure Virtual Networks that enables you to create a virtual private network with persistent private IPs (10.x, 172.x, 192.x).

Portable VMs By adding infrastructure services to Windows Azure, IT shops comfortable with running their own on-premises servers are just a few clicks away from running those servers in a virtual ...

The IaaS service is available now and allows users to configure virtual machines in one of five sizes, supporting up to 20 virtual machines at once running either Windows or Linux operating systems.