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Everything you need to know about how to select, deploy, optimize and more when it comes to managing your virtual machines in Microsoft Azure. In last month's column I covered the basic step-by-step ...

Microsoft has a long history of turning its internal tools into products, especially as part of Azure. That’s not surprising: The company is building and running the same cloud-native applications as ...

A look at secure ways of accessing your Windows or Linux VMs, plus Azure Security Center, Azure Backup, optimizing networking for VMs, automating creation of VMs, and tips and tricks for managing VMs ...

Microsoft's regular monthly update to Java on Azure Tooling sees the dev team introducing support for Azure Cosmos DB and furthering recently introduced Azure Virtual Machine functionality. And it's ...

Azure Arc, the hybrid and multi-cloud platform was originally announced at the Ignite conference last year. I spent the weekend exploring the architecture of Azure Arc along with the key scenarios it ...

Back when Microsoft first launched Azure’s virtual machines, there were only a handful of default server sizes you could use. The question you had to ask yourself then was a simple one: Is there a ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...