Microsoft’s offer: “Customers who migrate workloads to Azure virtual machines will have access to Extended Security Updates for both SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 for three ...

There was an extensive testing process that encountered the same performance issues with the chosen threaded VMs, so we switched early to core-based VMs (in this case, the Azure G-Series).

Azure Batch is an interesting example of a new generation of PaaS services that look and behave like traditional IaaS, but with the underlying infrastructure and operating system managed for you ...

Microsoft wants to give customers an easy way to move Windows Server workloads from VMware and Amazon environments into the Azure cloud, and at least one partner loves the idea.

Microsoft's latest bundle of Windows Azure enhancements includes some new virtualization capabilities that ultimately may help blur the IaaS-PaaS distinction.