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 ...

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.

When you need to ensure your agency’s Azure virtual machines are backed up and can be restored at a moment’s notice, Azure Backup is your best friend. If you’ve already created a VM backup in an Azure ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced a preview of remote authentications into Windows-based Azure virtual machines (VMs) using Azure AD credentials. Apparently, this capability, in which IT pros use their ...

Microsoft is announcing a couple of updates to its Azure cloud computing service today that, among other things, include the launch of a new variant of its performance-optimized G-type virtual ...

Microsoft Open Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, just announced the launch of VM Depot, “a community-driven catalog of open source virtual machine images for Windows Azure.” Azure, ...

Microsoft has launched two new initiatives that aim to give more developers access to cloud functionality when making video games. Announced during this week's Game Developers Conference, the first is ...

To begin the process, it’s necessary to have an Azure account with an active subscription and an existing Azure Virtual Machine. By default, Azure assigns a dynamic private IP address to VMs, allowing ...

This headline is not an error. I didn't have one too many craft brews over the New Year's weekend. Microsoft is poised to enable customers to make virtual machines ...