At the heart of the modern cloud is a tension between two different philosophies: IaaS, where you build a virtual infrastructure on a fabric of host systems managed by a cloud provider, and PaaS, ...

More from Mark Russinovich’s Ignite 2025 sessions, detailing software developments that underpin Microsoft’s move to ...

AUSTIN, Texas — At the Dockercon 2017 conference today Docker and Microsoft revealed they are working together to make Linux containers available on both Windows and the Azure cloud. Using a new Linux ...

Last week Microsoft launched a new feature that lets customers run modern applications on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in an isolated and secure form. Initially announced at the last KubeCon, the ...

Azure Container Instances (ACI), which let you create Linux and Windows containers without having to manage the virtual machines they run on, are now generally available. ACI brings serverless ...

When is a container serverless? That question might sound like troll bait for infrastructure geeks, but Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances, now generally available, is a blend of two prominent ...

If you still think Microsoft is all about Windows, wake up. Corey Sanders, Microsoft's director of Azure Compute, told me at Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., one in three Azure virtual ...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the "general availability" (GA) commercial release of Windows Server containers for use with the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The availability of production-grade ...

Although containers emerged from the land of Linux, Microsoft has wholeheartedly embraced them. Beginning with Windows Server 2016, the company began offering two types of Docker-compatible containers ...

Windows containers can run in Kubernetes–but there is a catch Your email has been sent The operating system container, which isolates just the essential parts of the operating system that are ...