Microsoft Azure

Google has officially lodged an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft. The company alleged that Microsoft’s software licensing practices are anti-competitive and effectively force customers to remain loyal to its Azure cloud services. In 2019, Microsoft introduced software licensing changes that increased the costs for customers running Windows, Windows Server, and Office on…

Read our interview with Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich to get the latest on Microsoft Azure and what new CEO Satya Nadella brings to the company.

In this op-ed post comparing Microsoft Azure and CloudShare, find out which cloud platform is better for sysadmins to create test labs.

Discover the ins and outs of cloud computing and learn how Microsoft has made a cloud OS with Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1.

Wondering what to do with the new Windows Azure IaaS service? Discover how to spool up a Minecraft server with Azure IaaS in this tutorial with John Savill.

Since mid-June 2024, some Microsoft customers have been reporting Azure Arc and Azure Stack HCI connectivity issues from on-premises devices to the cloud service endpoints. Devices were not able to connect to Microsoft Azure services like Azure Arc Resource Bridge and Azure VMware Solution. The issues have mostly been reported by customers with restrictive firewall…

Microsoft and Oracle have announced a slew of updates for the Oracle Database@Azure service. This solution allows customers to run Oracle Database workloads within the Microsoft Azure environment. Microsoft has announced the public preview of new Fabric integration with OCI GoldenGate. Microsoft Fabric is a new analytics and data platform that combines various services like…

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell shows you how to enroll Azure virtual machines to Azure Update Management and provide a general overview of how the solution works.

Microsoft has launched a public preview of its Microsoft Dev Box managed service. The new cloud-based offering provides developers easier access to a preconfigured virtual developer workstation without having to set up their physical machines. The Dev Box service was first announced at Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference in May. It’s designed for developers who…