Microsoft this week announced that Azure Firewall Basic is now at the "general availability" commercial-release stage. Azure Firewall Basic is a new product aimed at small-to-medium (SMB) ...

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 ...

Here's a roundup of enhancements made to Microsoft's global network connecting datacenters that house Azure, Office 365, Bing, Xbox and so on -- the second largest network in the world (after the ...

Microsoft will be trimming the prices of select Azure cloud services, effective October 1, company officials announced on September 25. Microsoft is cutting the price of its ExpressRoute NSP ...

Microsoft has developed a "cloud-scale emulator" meant to help engineers eliminate cloud networking downtime. According to Microsoft, CrystalNet was developed over two years by the Microsoft Azure and ...

Networking among virtual machines in Microsoft Azure is going to get a whole lot faster thanks to some new hardware that Microsoft has rolled out across its fleet of data centers. The company ...