I'm in the process of comparing EC2 and Azure for an upcoming ERP project, and I thought I'd prevail upon the hive mind for opinions. I'm much more familiar with EC2, but since all the applications ...

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Microsoft’s Windows Azure has beaten all competitors in a year’s worth of cloud speed tests, coming out ahead of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and a dozen others. The independent tests were ...

Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud tackle two very different cloud computing technology problems today, but are destined to emulate each other over time, Microsoft cloud ...

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A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...

On Sept. 30, 2008, Amazon.com Inc. announced the availability of a public beta version of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) with Windows Server 2003. The default Amazon Machine Image (AMI) creates a ...

Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud tackle are destined to emulate each other over time, Microsoft cloud official Tim O’Brien says. Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Amazon’s ...

Windows Azure and Amazon's tackle two very different cloud computing technology problems today, but are destined to emulate each other over time, Microsoft cloud official Tim O'Brien says. Whereas is ...