Microsoft has released FreeBSD 10.3 as a "ready made" VM image on the Azure marketplace. The release will make it easier for customers to spin-up a FreeBSD VM in Azure and it means that customers can ...

Microsoft this month launched two new Azure virtual machine (VM) types: the memory-intensive M-Series and the lower-cost B-Series. The M-Series VMs are particularly notable for having "the largest CPU ...

Microsoft highlighted a couple of Azure security and management tools this week. The tools are currently at the preview stage. There's a new Just-in-Time VM Access capability at the "public preview" ...

According to Microsoft, that’s double the throughput of any other VM offered by its competitors. As Microsoft’s director of program management Corey Sanders told me, the company decided to add this ...

A recent pilot-program announcement between Microsoft and Amazon-- via which enterprise customers can cover their Amazon Web Services Windows Server instances with their existing Microsoft Enterprise ...

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 ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced a preview of remote authentications into Windows-based Azure virtual machines (VMs) using Azure AD credentials. Apparently, this capability, in which IT pros use their ...

Microsoft today introduced the ND H100 v5 VM on the Azure cloud, a virtual machine for development generative AI applications. The VM can scale from eight to thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs with Quantum ...

Microsoft has released an emergency update to fix a bug that prevents Azure virtual machines from launching when the Trusted Launch setting is disabled and Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) is ...