With Azure Private Link, connections to Azure platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions happen via Microsoft's private backbone network, rather than the public Internet.

Instead, you can use Service Endpoints to have traffic go directly to that Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) resource type. There are endpoints for a growing number of PaaS services including Storage, ...

Azure Batch is an interesting example of a new generation of PaaS services that look and behave like traditional IaaS, but with the underlying infrastructure and operating system managed for you.

Microsoft's latest bundle of Windows Azure enhancements includes some new virtualization capabilities that ultimately may help blur the IaaS-PaaS distinction.

It’s time to bid farewall to Microsoft Azure’s humble beginnings as a mere PaaS. The big Redmond machine is lifting the curtain on previews of new services and updates today, aimed at ...

Microsoft introduced a nifty new feature to its Azure public cloud this week called Managed Disks. The idea is that developers will not have to worry about provisioning storage when spinning up ...

VMware's Cloud Foundry and Microsoft Azure are two of the leading platform as a service (PaaS) offerings from two cloud heavyweights, but one consultant says both companies are largely ignoring ...