Microsoft’s Windows Azure has beaten all competitors in a year’s worth of cloud speed tests, coming out ahead of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and a dozen others. The independent tests were ...

I'm in the process of comparing EC2 and Azure for an upcoming ERP project, and I thought I'd prevail upon the hive mind for opinions. I'm much more familiar with EC2, but since all the applications ...

A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...

The 2026 Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Data Quadrant Report from Info-Tech Research Group highlights top providers that help organizations deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing ...

Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud tackle are destined to emulate each other over time, Microsoft cloud official Tim O’Brien says. Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Amazon’s ...

While the Google App Engine cloud platform has trailed Amazon and Microsoft clouds in usage, it is nonetheless gaining traction among developers. That interest was bolstered by Google’s recent ...

Amazon is cutting deep in its bid to compete against Google Compute Engine and Windows Azure as the cloud platform of choice for enterprises. Today Amazon Web Services it announced discounts of up to ...

Last week Microsoft made a series of announcements that make Azure sound a lot more like an infrastructure service like Amazon’s. The announcements were part of the company’s Professional Development ...

Research firm GigaOm compared throughput performance between SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines and SQL Server on AWS EC2, finding the former enjoyed a definite speed edge. "Azure emerged as the ...

Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud tackle two very different cloud computing technology problems today, but are destined to emulate each other over time, Microsoft cloud ...

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