Microsoft Corp. today added two sets of virtual machines to its Azure public cloud that are designed to facilitate confidential computing, an increasingly popular approach to improving the security of ...

Last month, Microsoft introduced a number of security enhancements for Azure, and also unveiled reserved capacity offerings for six more Azure services. Today, the tech giant has announced the preview ...

Microsoft has released a technology preview test build of Microsoft Endpoint Protection (MEP) for Windows Azure, which is designed to allow developers and admins to add antimalware protection to their ...

Microsoft today announced the "general availability" of its Accelerated Networking technology for Azure virtual machines, which is available for use with both Linux- and Windows-based VMs. General ...

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Microsoft today announced a GS-Series for organizations tapping Azure virtual machines (VMs). The new GS-Series offers five VM sizes with the same specifications as the G-Series of VMs that Microsoft ...

When it comes to the size of virtual machines in the public cloud, does size matter? Microsoft, which runs one of the world's largest public clouds in Azure, thinks the answer is yes. Microsoft, ...

In today’s post, we will identify the cause and then provide the resolution to the issue of performing an in-place system upgrade is not supported on Windows-based Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Azure ...

Way back when virtualization was a new thing, virtual networks were simple connections that linked virtual servers and the occasional networking appliance. Now, however, things are different. Building ...