Microsoft announced today that it will be cutting its Windows Azure storage pricing to match prices set by Amazon Web Services. The cuts will be in the areas of block blob storage and disk/page blob ...

Microsoft's Windows Azure BLOB storage performed significantly better in a shootout among five leading providers of public cloud infrastructure services, including last year's runaway winner Amazon ...

Microsoft, not content with battling Google in cloud productivity software, is now officially hell-bent on knocking Amazon Web Services off its perch in the cloud infrastructure-as-a-service market.

In a post on Microsoft’s (News - Alert) MSDN blog, Windows Azure manager, Mike Neil, analyzes the root cause of the Windows Azure storage disruption on February 22, 2013. The service interruption ...

Microsoft's Windows Azure storage service went down worldwide just before 4 p.m. ET/9 p.m. UTC, apparently due to an expired HTTPS certificate. Here's what the Windows Azure status dashboard is ...

The cuts will be in the areas of block blob storage and disk/page blob storage pricing, and are scheduled to take effect on March 13. Microsoft gives developers numerous price breaks to develop on its ...

Microsoft this week rolled out a preview of a new georedundant option as part of its Windows Azure Storage service. The new "read access-geographically redundant storage" option is currently available ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Microsoft is making available to testers a beta of Windows Azure Drive (formerly known as XDrive), which will allow them to create automatic backups of Windows applications that they may want to move ...

Microsoft's Windows Azure Backup Service, which stores data from Windows Servers in the Azure cloud for backup and recovery purposes, is now generally available, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's corporate ...