Microsoft Azure Cloud Updates: Bigger, Safer, Docker-Friendly
January 11, 2015
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Pedro Hernandez.
As promised back in October as part of an expansion of the Microsoft’s hyperscale cloud capabilities, the company has made its new G-Series virtual machines (VM) for Azure generally available.
G-Series is the new king of Azure VMs, according to Corey Sanders, director of program management for Microsoft Azure. "G-series sizes provide the most memory, the highest processing power and the largest amount of local SSD [solid-state drive] of any virtual machine size currently available in the public cloud," he said in a Jan. 8 Azure Blog post…
Backed by Intel’s newest server processors and speedy, flash-based storage, Microsoft has upgraded its cloud-computing capabilities to make room for resource-intensive enterprise applications. "G-series offers up to 32 vCPUs [virtual CPUs] using the latest Intel Xeon processor E5 v3 family, 448GB of memory and 6.59TB of local solid-state drive (SSD) space," Sanders said…
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