Learn everything you need to know about two of the leading cloud-based infrastructure as a service providers, including how ...

Microsoft released Azure in February of this year and has been rushing to catch up with the features offered by cloud leader Amazon and other competitors like IBM, Cisco Systems, EMC Corp., VMware and ...

A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...

Microsoft on Monday responded to last week's Amazon Web Services cloud price cuts by lowering the price of its Azure virtual server and storage services across the board. And Microsoft now says it's ...

A comparison of SQL Server's throughput performance on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives the edge to Microsoft's cloud. "Azure emerged as the clear leader across both Windows and ...

Microsoft is giving its Cloud Solution Provider partners full access to Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances (RI), the company said Thursday. Microsoft also revealed that CSPs will be able to sell ...

Microsoft announced last week a new pricing scheme for its SQL Azure cloud database service. Previously, SQL Azure databases were limited to either 1GB (for "Web edition") or 10GB (for "business ...