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Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of a new computing instance family for Azure that is optimized for databases, Hadoop clusters and other analytics workloads. One of the ...

The cloud changed IT forever. And then containers changed the cloud. And then Kubernetes changed containers. And then microservices usurped monoliths, and so it goes in the cloudscape. Microsoft's ...

More from Mark Russinovich’s Ignite 2025 sessions, detailing software developments that underpin Microsoft’s move to ...

Microsoft announced this week that it plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, ...

Azure now has two Arms: the familiar Azure Resource Manager infrastructure description language and tools, and now a family of Azure VMs running on Ampere Arm-based processors. This new hardware ...

For certain kinds of modeling, simulation, and machine learning workloads, the advent of GPU coprocessors has been a watershed event. But as we have discussed before here at The Next Platform, there ...

Storage is key to cloud operations, but offerings differ between the main players in the market. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and IBM Softlayer all bring similar ...