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 ...

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Starting this week, Microsoft customers can use the Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) to virtualize a Windows 11 preview desktop on Azure virtual machines. "Azure Virtual ...

Thank you for completing the survey! Cloud platforms are the way to go nowadays if you are creating a new web application, and everyone and their grandpa seem to be moving to services such as Amazon ...

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud-computing service, which runs on top of Windows Server. The Azure Hybrid Use Benefit (HUB) is a discount program for Microsoft Azure users that allows them to get more value ...

A few weeks back, Microsoft announced Active Directory authentication support for Azure Files in preview. In more recent cloud-related news, the tech giant stated at NVIDIA's on-going GTC event ...

June 7, 2012: That's the day Microsoft is expected to disclose a number of the latest features it is adding to its Windows Azure cloud platform. Likely to be on the disclosure docket are "Antares," ...

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.