Hardware-backed confidential computing in Microsoft Azure now includes protected environments for VMs, containers, and GPUs, without the need to write specialized code. One of the biggest challenges ...

The move comes just days after Microsoft launched Windows Azure as a paid service after months in beta and trials. Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform built to rival the likes of Google and Amazon, ...

Gartner assesses the eight top cloud platform service providers—accounting for 97 percent of the global cloud services market—which includes AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Alibaba, IBM, Huawei and ...

When it comes to cloud computing, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are the clear leaders. Both are seeing strong growth, both are leaning heavily into artificial intelligence (AI), ...