Microsoft released Azure in February of this year and has been rushing to catch up with the features offered by cloud leader Amazon and other competitors like IBM, Cisco Systems, EMC Corp., VMware and ...

Amazon, which announced a free level of service Oct. 21, today announced cuts in storage prices of as much as 19 percent. Last week Microsoft made a series of announcements that make Azure sound a lot ...

I'm in the process of comparing EC2 and Azure for an upcoming ERP project, and I thought I'd prevail upon the hive mind for opinions. I'm much more familiar with EC2, but since all the applications ...

A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...