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Last month, Microsoft introduced a number of security enhancements for Azure, and also unveiled reserved capacity offerings for six more Azure services. Today, the tech giant has announced the preview ...

It's been a long road, but Microsoft announced on April 4 a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines via its work with Ampere Computing. Ampere is a startup that makes server chips. Ampere ...

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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 ...

New capability helps improve workload resilience and distribution across availability zones without manual intervention.

Just weeks after Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie declared that cloud pricing wars with Amazon Web Services were winding down, Microsoft’s cloud service has cut prices on several of its virtual ...

With virtual computing solutions targeting a variety of workloads such as enterprise applications, visualization, and machine learning, Microsoft has announced updates to its Azure VM solutions. At ...

Microsoft this week announced emerging efforts to better explain Azure virtual machine failures for customers via coming root cause analysis (RCA) reports. Currently, IT pros get Azure virtual machine ...