The cloud is becoming increasingly distributed, with container technologies allowing easy deployment of what had been cloud functionality to devices at the edge of the network. What began with ...

At the heart of the modern cloud is a tension between two different philosophies: IaaS, where you build a virtual infrastructure on a fabric of host systems managed by a cloud provider, and PaaS, ...

The SQL Azure team had not released the SQL Azure Federation version 1 Community Technology Preview (CTP) at publication. Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the ...

At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced the preview launch of Azure Container Apps, a new fully managed serverless container service that complements the company’s existing container ...

Microsoft has lately been pushing container development big-time for its Azure cloud. The company has published much new documentation for using containers in the past week or so across many different ...

If you haven’t been paying a lot of attention, you might have missed the rise of a new form of virtualization, based at the operating system level, called “containers.” While there are many specific ...