At the heart of the modern cloud is a tension between two different philosophies: IaaS, where you build a virtual infrastructure on a fabric of host systems managed by a cloud provider, and PaaS, ...

Microsoft hosted a virtual event called Microsoft Connect(); to make strategic announcements related to developers tools, platforms, and cloud. With the latest enhancements, Azure gained new ...

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One of the attractions of containers is the ability to spin them up nearly instantly when a cloud application needs more capacity. Much of the promise of the Microsoft Azure cloud similarly relates to ...

The “container as a service” lets you rapidly create and launch containerized applications, including from Kubernetes, without any overhead and with an easily scriptable set of commands Azure is ...

Microsoft updated its Azure Container Storage platform promising the trifecta of higher performance, lower latency, and improved resource efficiency for Kubernetes-based storage needs. Azure Container ...