Microsoft today announced the general availability of its IaaS offering and offered to price match AWS for storage, compute and network bandwidth in the cloud.

Cloud IaaS market leaders AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Alibaba and Huawei generate $120 billion in public cloud Infrastructure as-a-Service, Gartner reports.

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).

Gartner has released its latest Magic Quadrant for cloud infrastructure and a service (IaaS) – and while Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft will continue to get the plaudits, the real story is to ...

Microsoft Azure is hot on Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) heels, ranking just behind the cloud leader and inside the upper-right corner of Gartner Inc.’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Magic ...

Although research firm Gartner Inc. listed both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as leaders in its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) report, AWS came out as the top dog. Microsoft, of ...

While AWS is used by the majority of enterprise IaaS customers, Microsoft Azure is the next most likely IaaS vendor to be evaluated, a recent survey finds.

In this year's annual ranking of Iaas providers, AWS and Azure are the only leaders but Gartner says Amazon still has the most advanced and reliable service.

Ubuntu 12.04 Last year, Microsoft announced support for Linux-based operating systems last year, and now, with the Windows Azure Infrastructure Services, it will offer Ubuntu 12.04 support from ...