Over the last three months I've looked at how to deploy VMs to Azure, how to pick the right virtual machine (VM) size and other optimizations, followed by network and security best practices. And ...

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 ...

This Ansible project comprises Ansible roles and playbooks designed to deploy Azure resources according to the Azure resource diagram. Furthermore, it fetches code from a specified Git repository, ...

This project documents a secure cloud migration plan for a nationwide enterprise transitioning from leased data centers to Microsoft Azure. The implementation prioritizes regulatory compliance, data ...

Although research firm Gartner Inc. listed both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as leaders in its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) report, AWS came out as the top dog. Microsoft, of ...

Abstract: This chapter discusses how to set up and configure Azure policies. Setting up Azure policies will allow administrators to set rules on how users and devices connect to their Azure network.

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.

When Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s former Chief Software Architect announced Windows Azure at PDC 2008, no one could assess the impact that this software platform would have on the company and the industry.