Virtual machines have been part of cloud infrastructures since the early days of AWS and Azure. They’re key to bringing familiar workloads to the cloud, allowing existing applications and skill sets ...

Microsoft announced Azure VM Image Builder has reached general availability, providing a managed service that reduces the complexity of manually creating virtual machines images -- with associated ...

Microsoft is offering new Visual Studio VM images on its Azure cloud computing platform, some supporting the Dev Box service for cloud-based workstations customized for software development. Azure's ...

One of the big advantages of using cloud IaaS is the convenience; you can spin up a VM whenever you need it, scale it, pause it or throw it away. But large organisations want the VMs they use in the ...

At its ongoing Ignite 2018 conference, Microsoft announced a series of enhancements to the Azure lineup, including Azure Data Box, Digital Twins, and more. Adding to the aforementioned ones, a series ...

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 ...

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.

Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s annual “Inside Azure Innovations” presentations give us a look at cooling innovations, ...