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 ...

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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 ...

Microsoft's Windows Azure team rolled out last week another bunch of updates and new features for Microsoft's cloud platform. Buried among the announcements was a new virtual-machine agent component ...

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 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 ...

Organizations looking to add another layer of security to their Azure service connections can now access a preview release of Azure Private Link, announced by Microsoft this week. The new service is ...

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." ...

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers AppFog and Apprenda are teaming up with Microsoft to bridge on-premise .NET applications with the Windows Azure cloud platform. It’s all part of Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft has open-sourced one of Azure’s foundational services. But what is Service Fabric and how can you use it? Cloud services like Azure are at heart massive distributed systems, hosting all ...