Azure Purview, Azure Arc enabled servers, Azure Communication Services, and Azure Machine Learning – which cover governance, multi-cloud, comms APIs, and AI – will enable local and regional customers ...

Microsoft officials often cite the number of Azure regions the company has on its books. For a while, 54 has been the magic number, which includes some operational and some "planned" regions.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Justin is founder and principal analyst at PivotNine. Microsoft has announced that it is going to open two new highly-secure Azure ...

Microsoft has long offered U.S. government agencies a special version of its Azure cloud computing platform that has all the necessary certifications to allow federal, state and local agencies to use ...

Microsoft has opened two Azure cloud regions and an Office 365 region in the United Kingdom, with the intention of letting local customers keep data closer to them geographically. Keeping data closer ...

Microsoft today announced its plans to launch a new data center region in Austria, its first in the country. With nearby Azure regions in Switzerland, Germany, France and a planned new region in ...

The first availability zones within Microsoft Azure’s cloud computing regions are coming online for everyone Friday, bringing additional reliability and backup options for customers running ...

Microsoft is today announcing updates to its Azure Government public cloud, which is tailored to the needs of government agencies. The most interesting bit of news is that Microsoft will be opening up ...

Microsoft announced on Monday that it has opened two new Azure datacenter regions in Australia that can provide services to Australian and New Zealand customers. The exact locations of the two ...

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it now offers the Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive (SSD) storage service commercially, or at the "general availability" stage, in a few Azure regions. The ...