ORLANDO, Florida – Microsoft launched general availability of its Azure Functions Premium product that tackles a handful of ongoing serverless challenges like cold start, network isolation, secrets ...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service has had a rocky journey to where it is today. Its initial focus on delivering PaaS was clearly too early for the rest of the industry, and it was only a pivot to ...

Azure Functions get you beyond the traditional client/server approach to app creation, right into the cloud. Let’s first look at triggers. Azure Functions is another evolution of Platform as a Service ...

Extending its reach in the cloud, Microsoft Corp. today announced its Azure Event Grid service is now generally available. The service is a key part of the company’s strategy for serverless computing, ...

Microsoft is making available a preview of a "="" service"=""> to compete with AWS Lambda. Microsoft is open sourcing the runtime for Azure Functions, said Microsoft's chief of Cloud and Enterprise, ...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich talks with reporters Thursday at the company’s Redmond campus. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft’s push into “serverless” computing aims to ...

Another benefit of the hyperscale clouds is their operational expertise and their infrastructure design. They can spin up a new server instance in seconds, providing compute on demand. And with ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Not to be outdone, while Oracle is hosting its annual Java developer festival, Microsoft released a Java-based preview of its serverless computing offering, Azure Functions. According ...

A key part of Microsoft’s strategy for serverless computing is ready for prime time. Azure Event Grid, first announced last August, is now generally available, Microsoft is expected to announce ...