This is the third article in our Windows Azure guide series, aimed at helping you understand the intricacies of Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform. Subsequent to the Spring Update released in ...

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 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 cloud-storage pricing wars just keep going and going. The latest to trim prices is Microsoft, following similar back-to-back moves by Amazon and Google. On December 5, Microsoft announced its ...

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.

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 ...

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 has kicked off a public preview of its Read-Access Geo Redundant Storage (RA-GRS), a feature for the company’s growing Windows Azure cloud storage platform that improves access to data in ...

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 ...