Microsoft has released FreeBSD 10.3 as a "ready made" VM image on the Azure marketplace. The release will make it easier for customers to spin-up a FreeBSD VM in Azure and it means that customers can ...

Microsoft this month launched two new Azure virtual machine (VM) types: the memory-intensive M-Series and the lower-cost B-Series. The M-Series VMs are particularly notable for having "the largest CPU ...

A recent pilot-program announcement between Microsoft and Amazon-- via which enterprise customers can cover their Amazon Web Services Windows Server instances with their existing Microsoft Enterprise ...

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Microsoft recently added new Azure Virtual Machine (VM) sizes, with options for running isolated and GPU-based workloads. The new new VMs, named "E64i_v3" and "E64is_v3," are designed for "workloads ...

According to Microsoft, that’s double the throughput of any other VM offered by its competitors. As Microsoft’s director of program management Corey Sanders told me, the company decided to add this ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced a preview of remote authentications into Windows-based Azure virtual machines (VMs) using Azure AD credentials. Apparently, this capability, in which IT pros use their ...

Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Bastion, a managed PaaS service designed to provide RDP and SSH access via a web browser to Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) on an Azure Virtual Network (VNet) ...

Microsoft is making its Rust-based, functions-focused VM tool available on Azure at last, ready to help event-driven applications at scale. Virtualization seemed to be one of those technologies that ...

Microsoft has released an emergency update to fix a bug that prevents Azure virtual machines from launching when the Trusted Launch setting is disabled and Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) is ...