Microsoft's Windows Azure team rolled out last week another bunch of updates and new features for Microsoft's cloud platform. Buried among the announcements was a new virtual-machine agent ...

Azure Batch is an interesting example of a new generation of PaaS services that look and behave like traditional IaaS, but with the underlying infrastructure and operating system managed for you ...

“Only Microsoft, as of today, offers the broadest IaaS and PaaS from a single vendor cloud platform,” wrote James Staten, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester.

Second much of the PaaS services on Azure span PaaS and IaaS deployments letting you easily mix VM role and Worker role components in the same service; sharing the same network configuration ...

This combines ease of management with greater control over resources. • Cloud-Native Migration: Directly transitioning to cloud providers offers exceptional customization and scalability.

Cloud breakdown slide via “Windows Azure Platform: Cloud Development Jump Start” via Microsoft CloudBeat 2011 takes place Nov 30 – Dec 1 at the Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City, CA.

Grab some popcorn. Microsoft has thrown down the proverbial gauntlet for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), upgrading its Azure cloud service for direct competition with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

By using cloud-based IaaS or PaaS, SaaS startups can achieve gross margins in the 80 to 90 percent range, allowing them to compete on equal terms with established vendors of installed software.

I comes before P, even before "as a Service."Azure is moving down the stack. Originally a Platform as a Service (PaaS) tool which is more or less a full stack to run your apps, just one level below ...