Windows Azure Platform is the cloud offering from Microsoft that encompasses many independent services for compute, storage, networking, monitoring and reporting among others. IT professionals ...

One of the interesting aspects of moving to a top-down, application-centric way of working is rethinking how we do networking. Much as the application model first abstracted away physical ...

Just over a week after announcing general availability of Windows Azure's new infrastructure as a service capbilities, the Azure team added more networking, virtual machine and development kit support ...

Networking among virtual machines in Microsoft Azure is going to get a whole lot faster thanks to some new hardware that Microsoft has rolled out across its fleet of data centers. The company ...

Microsoft has introduced new hardware architecture into its cloud data centers, hoping to considerably increase network performance - at no cost to customers. Accelerated Networking offloads some of ...

A look inside a Microsoft data center in Cheyenne, Wyo. (Microsoft Photo) An outage that lasted more than an hour took out a host of Microsoft cloud services Thursday afternoon, as networking ...