Microsoft has announced price reductions of up to 17% on its Azure D-series Dv2 virtual machines, in an evident play against Amazon Web Services (AWS) following its own price cuts. Just how evident ...

A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...

It's the defining cloud battle of our time: AWS vs Microsoft Azure vs Google Cloud Platform. Who can win the IaaS enterprise market? Computerworld takes a look at the merits of the big three vendors ...

AWS partner Caylent launches a new, AI-powered cloud migration offering today aimed at driving customer workloads off VMware, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud to AWS. Amazon Web Services all-star ...

Here’s where SMBs and enterprises are placing their workloads on private cloud platforms from leaders AWS, Microsoft and VMware. “Most organizations are taking a multi-cloud, hybrid approach in which ...

Microsoft’s Windows Azure beat all competitors in a year’s worth of cloud speed tests, coming out ahead of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and a dozen others. Azure takes an average of six ...

It was a nightmare scenario for the digital age. On Wednesday, just hours before Microsoft was scheduled to release its earnings, its foundational cloud services—Azure and 365—abruptly went offline.