Despite fanfare, Microsoft’s air-gapped cloud offer is far from GA-ready, can’t run Azure Kubernetes Service, maxes out ...

Azure’s Cognitive Services are a quick and easy way to add machine learning to many different types of applications. Available as REST APIs, they can be quickly hooked into your code using simple ...

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One of the attractions of containers is the ability to spin them up nearly instantly when a cloud application needs more capacity. Much of the promise of the Microsoft Azure cloud similarly relates to ...

With containers taking over the Azure cloud-native development space, the first thing organizations new to the scene need to do is understand how they work. The second thing to do is think about how ...

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 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 ...

Barely a day passes without some news about containers and that speaks to how quickly this technology is being adopted by developers and the platforms and startups that serve them. Today it’s ...

Solidifying its software container stance, Microsoft has announced the "very first service of its kind in the cloud" called Azure Container Instances. A preview for Linux containers is now available.