Azure Container Instances, a serverless runtime that aims to help developers spin up containers on Microsoft's public datacenter infrastructure, is now generally available. The service is currently ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the "general availability" (GA) of Azure Container Instances, a serverless runtime that's designed to make it easier for developers to spin up containers on ...

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 ...

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Building cloud-native applications at scale requires choosing your stack carefully. One popular tool is Apache’s Cassandra project, a NoSQL database designed to scale rapidly without affecting ...

Windows Azure Platform is the cloud offering from Microsoft that encompasses many independent services for compute, storage, networking, monitoring and reporting among others. IT professionals ...

There’s “the cloud” and then there’s Windows Azure. We tested the available production-level features in Microsoft’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, and found that Azure is similar in many ways ...