The most significant update yet to Microsoft's Windows Azure service will bring long-awaited Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities ... Virtual Network, SQL Database (previously called ...

Following the expansion of its failover capabilities for Azure SQL Database earlier this month ... clients using Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas) implementations in their businesses.

Microsoft launched Windows Azure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) options on April 16 ... SharePoint 2013 and SQL Server 2012 VMs in Microsoft's cloud. It's not just Windows Server VMs that ...

Azure SQL will also provide access to auto-patching, auto-backup and new license management options, providing Platform as a Service (PaaS)-like benefits to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS ...

The big Redmond machine is lifting the curtain on previews of new services and updates today, aimed at injecting a healthy dose of IaaS ... The Azure Web Sites support both Windows Azure SQL ...

Microsoft Azure, originally a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, only expanded into IaaS in April 2013, making it seven years younger than AWS. Its PaaS and IaaS offerings “operate and ...

Microsoft's Windows Azure team has typically held its momentum and sales numbers fairly close to the vest. But this week at the TechEd conference, execs did share a couple of interesting data points.

you need to register the VMs with the SQL Server IaaS Agent extension. Migrating to Azure also lets you take advantage of other services, like Automanage. You can run standard Azure VMs or use the ...

Azure Batch is an interesting example of a new generation of PaaS services that look and behave like traditional IaaS, but with the underlying infrastructure and operating system managed for you.