On April 16, 2013, Microsoft opened another chapter in its cloud offering by announcing its Windows Azure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform, designed and priced to compete directly with ...

To get the most from a cloud computing architecture, it's imperative to underpin your infrastructure with the right networking management tools. Microsoft Azure includes an array of load balancing and ...

Sessions enable web servers to identify requests coming from an authenticated user via a unique ID number included in every request made to the server. Session persistence makes sure the same web ...

Microsoft announced the preview of Gateway Load Balancer, a fully managed service enabling users to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third party Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs) in ...

Cloud load balancing distributes traffic across backend resources to improve scalability, availability, health checks, plus ...

Microsoft announced that it is deepening its partnership with SAP, adopting the RISE with SAP solution to support large SAP ERP migrations internally. Joao Couto VP of Microsoft's SAP business unit, ...

Has anyone tried out Azure's ILB yet? I'm trying to set it up and all it tells me is Apparently ILB is only supported on the new regional virtual network's and all of our Azure VNet's are associated ...

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Microsoft struggled this week with multiple performance problems on its Azure cloud platform, while it also made the hosted load balancing service Traffic Manager generally available. Microsoft’s ...