It’s time to bid farewall to Microsoft Azure’s humble beginnings as a mere PaaS. The big Redmond machine is lifting the curtain on previews of new services and updates today, aimed at injecting a ...

Microsoft's portfolio of PaaS databases has grown way beyond Azure SQL. Here are its most important cloud-based database services, and exactly how each one works differently from the other. As you ...

Having covered Cloud Foundry, Force.com, Google App Engine and Red Hat OpenShift, we now take a look at Microsoft's PaaS offering, Windows Azure. Microsoft Windows Azure Platform is a Platform as a ...

A couple of weeks after making available a first technical preview of its Azure Stack hybrid cloud environment, Microsoft has provided the promised service previews for Azure Stack. "Today we're ...

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Microsoft has used a number of different metaphors to explain its cloud-computing positioning and strategy over the past couple of years. There was Software+Services. Then talk switched to three ...

While we use Azure SQL (PaaS) anywhere it is feasible, we have applications that just aren't supported on Azure SQL (PaaS) or we have a need for more performance than the shared nature of the PaaS ...

Hyperscale combines strong write performance, flexible storage and fast replica creation for databases of nearly any size.

This past month, Microsoft released a public preview of Azure Stack, which I downloaded, fiddled with, and put together this blog post to share what this thing is all about. As with all my blog posts, ...