Cloud and virtualisation are related ideas, but they're not the same thing. To Microsoft the real benefit of its Azure cloud service is more than elasticity and scaling and economies of scale; it's ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced a preview of remote authentications into Windows-based Azure virtual machines (VMs) using Azure AD credentials. Apparently, this capability, in which IT pros use their ...

Microsoft this week has made its Roles Based Access Control (RBAC) Azure service generally available. The service lets organizations set up access privileges to Azure resources based on the use of ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced Azure Active Directory management enhancements for the Azure AD Conditional Access service, as well as authentication perks for managing Azure virtual machines (VMs).

Microsoft has announced a bumper set of updates to its Azure cloud platform. The most significant of these is a new virtual machine role, allowing customers to deploy their own virtual machine images ...

This headline is not an error. I didn't have one too many craft brews over the New Year's weekend. Microsoft is poised to enable customers to make virtual machines ...

Microsoft doesn’t want to admit it, but a Gartner analyst says the vendor’s decision to offer Windows Server instances in the Azure cloud is opening a new competitive front against partner hosting ...

When Microsoft's cloud platform, then known as Windows Azure, was first launched, it was strictly a Platform-as-a-Service offering. Apps written for Azure were deployed onto Windows and used Azure's ...