Windows Azure Platform is the cloud offering from Microsoft that encompasses many independent services for compute, storage, networking, monitoring and reporting among others. IT professionals ...

Windows Azure’s command line tools are traditionally available only on Microsoft Windows in the form of PowerShell Cmdlets. But with the June / Spring release of Windows Azure, Microsoft shipped the ...

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.

An understanding of Azure Reserved VM Instances, including the 6 components you must consider before purchasing a reservation. How to calculate your payback period so you can determine the exact ...

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 ...

It's now a little easier to deploy open source software to Microsoft's cloud-based Windows Azure operating system. On Tuesday, Microsoft launched a preview of a community portal that houses prebuilt ...

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 ...