Last month we looked at how to set up nested VMs in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016. Azure, of course, runs on Hyper-V and some regions already have some of their hosts upgraded to Windows Server 2016.

Here's what to do (and what not to do) when you want to move a workload to the cloud using a virtual machine on someone else's metal. There are many reasons to move workloads to the cloud and there ...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of tools that let customers with virtual machines manage them through the Azure Resource Manager rather than through older APIs — and with no VM ...

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The Azure Migrate tool can now be used by organizations to help plan moves of their on-premises virtual machines (VMs) and applications to Azure datacenter infrastructure, Microsoft announced on ...

Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform has been gaining steam since its launch to paying customers in February. Just last week it reached 10,000 customers; already, Azure is shaping up to ...