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.

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 ...

The Craneware Group, which provides software solutions and services to over 12,000 hospitals, clinics, and retail pharmacies, has selected Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure. Its end-to ...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has deployed its Oracle database services in the Microsoft Azure East US region's data centers. Customers can now access the new Oracle Database@Azure service, which covers ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 today launched two new Azure regions in China. These new regions, China North 2 in Beijing and China East 2 in Shanghai, are now generally available and will complement the existing two ...