One of the big advantages of using cloud IaaS is the convenience; you can spin up a VM whenever you need it, scale it, pause it or throw it away. But large organisations want the VMs they use in the ...

Last month we looked at how to set up nested VMs in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016. Azure, of course, runs on Hyper-V and some regions already have some of their hosts upgraded to Windows Server 2016.

A first look at how you can run server instances in the new Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service public cloud offering. The long-awaited release of Microsoft Windows Azure Infrastructure Services ...

Here's what to do (and what not to do) when you want to move a workload to the cloud using a virtual machine on someone else's metal. There are many reasons to move workloads to the cloud and there ...

How to create a Windows Virtual Desktop in Microsoft Azure Your email has been sent In an era when millions of employees in the global workforce have been compelled to work from remote locations as a ...

Storage and performance can be quite different in the cloud. It's important to choose the right VM size and configure your storage properly to keep SQL Server workloads running smoothly. Microsoft ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Build conference in Seattle this week will launch several enhancements to the company’s Azure public cloud. Azure Compute Fleet is a new service in preview intended to simplify the ...

This article addresses a key function built in to Windows 2012 that on first blush may seem like a complex technical networking feature, but that functionality has GREAT implications when extending ...

When you have a local network, you can have network storage — an SMB share on a file server, or a Network Attached Storage (NAS) box that everything on the network can access. Inside a cloud service, ...