Microsoft continues to augment it’s Azure cloud for HPC workloads with the release of the Batch Shipyard toolkit, version 1.0. Available on GitHub as Open Source, the Batch Shipyard toolkit enables ...

Before year-end, Microsoft will make available to testers a preview version of a new Azure Container Service which will bring together Apache Mesos, Docker and Azure. The new Container Service is just ...

As Microsoft moves to embrace containers to provide virtual machine (VM) and application portability, the company is among numerous players that have aligned with Docker Inc. to enable cross-platform ...

Docker 1.0 released, and has backing Microsoft in new capability that allows Azure to create Docker-enabled VMs. Microsoft is lending support to the Docker open source application containerization ...

Virtual machines (VMs) are so firmly entrenched in the datacenter now that it's hard to remember a time when they weren't available. In fact, many younger IT pros may be only vaguely familiar with a ...

One advantage of Microsoft Open Technolgies, a subsidiary that focuses on open source collaboration with the non-Microsoft world, is that it's not afraid to highlight cool technology, no matter the ...