Microsoft has fixed an issue with its Windows Azure Compute service that affected users worldwide, starting on Tuesday, and is working to completely resolve other affected cloud services. At 2:35 a.m.

Microsoft today announced that in the second quarter of 2016 — the fourth quarter of the company’s 2016 fiscal year — compute usage on its Azure public cloud more than doubled year over year. Azure ...

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Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich explains why serverless is the future of cloud computing. This year, Microsoft launched new serverless products.

For certain kinds of modeling, simulation, and machine learning workloads, the advent of GPU coprocessors has been a watershed event. But as we have discussed before here at The Next Platform, there ...

The cloud changed IT forever. And then containers changed the cloud. And then Kubernetes changed containers. And then microservices usurped monoliths, and so it goes in the cloudscape. Microsoft's ...

Microsoft Azure has made significant September 2025 announcements with the added computational capability and availability of a massive regional deployment of its cloud computing platform. The latest ...

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When rumors of Google getting into the infrastructure-as-a-service business began percolating (largely thanks to Om Malik) last week, I started writing this post in my head. I knew if Google announced ...

Microsoft today announced that it has joined the Open Compute Project (OCP) and plans to share some of its Windows Azure datacenter designs as part of that effort. The announcement was delivered as ...