Microsoft’s offer: “Customers who migrate workloads to Azure virtual machines will have access to Extended Security Updates for both SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 for three ...

There was an extensive testing process that encountered the same performance issues with the chosen threaded VMs, so we switched early to core-based VMs (in this case, the Azure G-Series).

Microsoft's latest bundle of Windows Azure enhancements includes some new virtualization capabilities that ultimately may help blur the IaaS-PaaS distinction.

Most companies move up to higher levels of sophistication. With Azure, Microsoft is moving down, broadening the service into Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).

Beyond adding virtual machine capabilities, Microsoft is expanding Azure's support to Linux while giving developer more language choices ...