One of the most basic, common activities when using a cloud service like Microsoft Azure is to simply upload some files. Even though the cloud seems like some complicated entity in which you can't ...

Storage is a finite IT asset, and organizations can’t get enough of it. Businesses are consuming more storage every day, and it’s up to IT to keep up. Rather than consistently add expensive new ...

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.

Windows Terminal is a consolidation of various command-line utilities such as Windows PowerShell, PowerShell, Command Prompt, etc. It lets you use more than one command-line utility at a time from a ...

Windows Azure Platform is the cloud offering from Microsoft that encompasses many independent services for compute, storage, networking, monitoring and reporting among others. IT professionals ...

Developers and administrators have many ways to deploy resources to Microsoft Azure. But when deploying many resources at once that consist of a full "stack" of resources, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) ...

Microsoft launched the Azure service just over eight years ago in a bid to play catchup with Amazon Web Services. And it has succeeded. Azure is now the No. 2 cloud service, behind AWS. Just how far ...