Virtual machines have been part of cloud infrastructures since the early days of AWS and Azure. They’re key to bringing familiar workloads to the cloud, allowing existing applications and skill sets ...

Microsoft announced Azure VM Image Builder has reached general availability, providing a managed service that reduces the complexity of manually creating virtual machines images -- with associated ...

Microsoft is offering new Visual Studio VM images on its Azure cloud computing platform, some supporting the Dev Box service for cloud-based workstations customized for software development. Azure's ...

Photo by crypto, via Flickr. FreeBSD, a popular open-source Unix operating system with roots stretching back to the 1970s, is now available through the Azure Marketplace as a virtual-machine image for ...

Microsoft has released FreeBSD 10.3 as a "ready made" VM image on the Azure marketplace. The release will make it easier for customers to spin-up a FreeBSD VM in Azure and it means that customers can ...