The most significant update yet to Microsoft's Windows Azure service will bring long-awaited Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities and support for Linux instances to the cloud platform.

Second much of the PaaS services on Azure span PaaS and IaaS deployments letting you easily mix VM role and Worker role components in the same service; sharing the same network configuration ...

Microsoft launched Windows Azure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) options on April 16. The service is now commercially available. The move adds to Microsoft's Windows Azure platform-as-a-service ...

Microsoft Azure, originally a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, only expanded into IaaS in April 2013, making it seven years younger than AWS. Its PaaS and IaaS offerings “operate and ...

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Microsoft's Windows Azure team has typically held its momentum and sales numbers fairly close to the vest. But this week at the TechEd conference, execs did share a couple of interesting data points.

It’s time to bid farewall to Microsoft Azure’s humble beginnings as a mere ... aimed at injecting a healthy dose of IaaS capabilities into its cloud platform while broadening support for ...

Azure Editions (Azure IaaS, Azure Local and Azure Stack) of Windows Server will continue to get hotpatching for free. Microsoft also added that users enrolled in the preview program will need to ...