If you still think Microsoft is all about Windows, wake up. Corey Sanders, Microsoft's director of Azure Compute, told me at Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., one in three Azure virtual ...

The AMD-based VMs use Azure Boost, Microsoft’s system for offloading infrastructure tasks from the host CPU to specialized ...

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's self-professed Linux love is helping the company in the cloud. During his keynote at DockerCon 2016 in Seattle today, Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich showed off some of the ...

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As Linux becomes more popular as an operating system on Microsoft's Azure cloud, the need naturally arises for admins to have a way to demonstrate their expertise. Last week, Microsoft provided that ...

Microsoft and IBM earlier this month announced the "availability" of IBM WebSphere Application Server on Azure Linux-based virtual machines. The collaboration enables organizations to run enterprise ...

Microsoft has increased its commitment to open-source technologies recently and has a wide variety of Linux virtual machines (VMs) available for Azure users to deploy. In September, the company ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced Azure Active Directory management enhancements for the Azure AD Conditional Access service, as well as authentication perks for managing Azure virtual machines (VMs).