Microsoft cloud

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    Google, Microsoft play catch up to Amazon, add load balancing, auto-scaling to their clouds

    Cloud computing proving to be a piggy-back industry Google Wednesday rolled out load balancing features to its public cloud service, allowing customers to automatically scale up and down virtual machines to accommodate unexpected spikes in demand. The rollout comes just a few months after Microsoft improved its Azure cloud service […]

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    Microsoft Hyper-V starts turning more heads

    Microsoft virtualization technology still has uphill battle vs. VMware, but third-party support making Hyper-V more alluring to customers About three years ago Embotics jumped into developing support in its private cloud management platform for Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor, hopeful that the VMware virtualization challenger would take off. When that takeoff initially […]