Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform has been gaining steam since its launch to paying customers in February. Just last week it reached 10,000 customers; already, Azure is shaping up to ...

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Let us try to get a generic explanation for each of them! What is Blob storage in Azure? Blob is an acronym for Binary Large object. Basically, a Blob is a sequence of bytes—just what an application ...

One of the most basic, common activities when using a cloud service like Microsoft Azure is to simply upload some files. Even though the cloud seems like some complicated entity in which you can't ...

First previewed at Build 2016, this GA version comes with a number of samples for getting started with building Node.js apps that can take full advantage of Azure Blob, File, Table and Queue storage.

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's vaunted cloud computing platform. Azure offers a range of cloud-based solutions for the creation and management of applications. Most Azure products use a pay-as-you-go ...

After Google’s drastic price cuts for its cloud computing services, Amazon quickly matched them. Given that Microsoft always promised to match prices, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the company ...