Microsoft’s new Azure database savings plans promise more flexible, cross-service cost reductions than traditional reservations, giving IT teams another lever to manage rising cloud database spend ...

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Introduction In today’s competitive IT landscape, cloud computing skills are among the most in-demand competencies worldwide.

Microsoft is making available a preview of a "="" service"=""> to compete with AWS Lambda. Microsoft is open sourcing the runtime for Azure Functions, said Microsoft's chief of Cloud and Enterprise, ...

The cloud changed IT forever. And then containers changed the cloud. And then Kubernetes changed containers. And then microservices usurped monoliths, and so it goes in the cloudscape. Microsoft's ...

In the era of cloud computing, Microsoft Azure certifications hold significant value for IT professionals at all stages of ...

Microsoft today announced that in the second quarter of 2016 — the fourth quarter of the company’s 2016 fiscal year — compute usage on its Azure public cloud more than doubled year over year. Azure ...

Rietschin argues that Microsoft's rushed launch of Azure, the "post-launch talent exodus," the lack of software quality and ...