June 7, 2012: That's the day Microsoft is expected to disclose a number of the latest features it is adding to its Windows Azure cloud platform. Likely to be on the disclosure docket are "Antares," ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced a preview of Azure Dedicated Host, a new service that gives organizations access to unshared or "dedicated" Azure hardware infrastructure for hosting their workloads on ...

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, ...