One of the interesting aspects of moving to a top-down, application-centric way of working is rethinking how we do networking. Much as the application model first abstracted away physical ...

Way back when virtualization was a new thing, virtual networks were simple connections that linked virtual servers and the occasional networking appliance. Now, however, things are different. Building ...

Microsoft is launching its Azure Space initiative on October 20. Azure Space is a set of products, plus newly announced partnerships designed to position Azure as a key player in the space- and ...

Microsoft today announced the "general availability" of its Accelerated Networking technology for Azure virtual machines, which is available for use with both Linux- and Windows-based VMs. General ...

Networking among virtual machines in Microsoft Azure is going to get a whole lot faster thanks to some new hardware that Microsoft has rolled out across its fleet of data centers. The company ...

‘Both on the private MEC and the public MEC, there is definitely a need for the partner ecosystem beyond the ISVs,’ Yousef Khalidi tells CRN. ‘Some of these solutions require a certain amount of ...

The AMD-based VMs use Azure Boost, Microsoft’s system for offloading infrastructure tasks from the host CPU to specialized hardware, improving both performance and security. They also use the ...

Update (April 5): The original version of this article portrayed Alibaba as using SONIC for its public cloud. Since it was published, Microsoft has come back and said that portrayal is not correct. (I ...