Microsoft released a new F-Series of Azure Virtual Machines this month. This VM series was designed to serve the needs of organizations running "gaming servers, Web servers and batch processing," ...

Microsoft added more options to its alphabet soup of Azure virtual machine (VM) offerings this month. Reaching "general availability" this month are the lower-cost B-Series VMs, plus the ...

Microsoft has become the first cloud provider to add support for AMD's EPYC line of processors. AMD launched its consumer Zen-based desktop processors under the Ryzen banner back in March, with August ...

Microsoft recently added new Azure Virtual Machine (VM) sizes, with options for running isolated and GPU-based workloads. The new new VMs, named "E64i_v3" and "E64is_v3," are designed for "workloads ...

Redmond added more options to its Azure Virtual Machine (VM) offerings this month. Reaching "general availability" are the memory-intensive M-Series VMs, which feature "the largest CPU and memory ...

Azure users want to use the G-series machines to run big database workloads. “As those workloads have grown, the desire for increased storage throughput has come up regularly,” he told me. In his view ...

Microsoft will soon be offering virtual machines in its Azure cloud service based on AMD's Epyc processors. The growth of the cloud computing market has, until now, been a success story for Intel's ...