July 19, 2023 — Microsoft today introduced the preview of Microsoft Azure Boost, one of Azure’s latest infrastructure innovations. Azure Boost is a new system that offloads virtualization processes ...

It's been a long time coming, but Microsoft is making available a preview of Azure VMs supporting Arm-based processors from Ampere. “We are now supporting Arm on Azure as well. This has been a long ...

When you need to ensure your agency’s Azure virtual machines are backed up and can be restored at a moment’s notice, Azure Backup is your best friend. If you’ve already created a VM backup in an Azure ...

Microsoft recently announced a pair of new Azure virtual machine (VM) options designed to accommodate the intense compute demands of modern -- specifically, AI -- workloads. The new Azure ND H200 v5 ...

Microsoft has expanded its confidential computing offering and now allows Azure cloud computing service customers to create hardware isolated virtual machines (aka confidential VMs) with Ephemeral OS ...

The security bug was introduced during Microsoft’s July 2025 Patch Tuesday rollout last week. Microsoft has released an emergency update to address a bug that prevents certain virtual machines hosted ...

In an effort to bolster utilization of unused Azure compute capacity, Microsoft has introduced Azure Virtual Spot Machines. A variety of workloads are noted to be supported at discounted prices. Spot ...

Planning a cloud migration is like taking a trip: It's important to double-check that every necessity is in the suitcase and confirm that every travel leg is on time. When admins move VMs to the cloud ...

Managed Identity and virtual machine failures triggered knock-on problems throughout cloud platform Microsoft has reported two Azure service wobbles in as many days, including a disruption affecting ...

Microsoft has released Azure Linux 4.0 as a public preview. The new version of its in-house Linux distribution features a modernized software base with Kernel 6.18 LTS, dnf5, glibc 2.42, OpenSSL 3.5, ...

Following a preview in April, Microsoft this morning announced the general availability of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture. The ...

Many new IT administrators don't know that Microsoft Azure supports container services out of the box. As a result, admins often create VMs on which to run containers. But this is inefficient, because ...