In a move aimed at making it more appealing for developers and business decision makers to use its cloud platform as a service (PaaS), Microsoft is bringing together its separate Azure app services ...

Two of Microsoft's Azure public cloud services went down for more than two hours Monday for customers in the central U.S., due to what the software giant described as a "network infrastructure issue." ...

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A couple of weeks after making available a first technical preview of its Azure Stack hybrid cloud environment, Microsoft has provided the promised service previews for Azure Stack. "Today we're ...

With Azure Service Fabric, the same PaaS that Microsoft uses to build and deploy microservices applications on Azure will be offered to the world What happens when you build applications from ...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of Azure Private Link, an option for keeping Azure service connections off the public Internet. With Azure Private Link, connections to Azure ...

For the third straight year, Microsoft Azure ranks just behind Amazon Web Services in the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s annual “Magic Quadrant” ranking of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) ...

Microsoft's next-gen PaaS, Service Fabric, offers unique benefits -- including support for stateful services and Reliable Actors. Here's how to get all you can from it When Microsoft launched Azure, ...

Microsoft has an "ambition" to make some of Windows Azure's platform-as-a-service components free, after the IT giant announced sweeping changes to the service that ratcheted up its competition with ...