Microsoft’s plan to bridge its infrastructure and platform cloud services is unfolding

Two years ago, Microsoft officials began talking up the company’s plan to bring a bunch of Azure platform-as-a-service capabilities to the infrastructure-as-a-service side of the Microsoft Azure cloud. In March 2016, Microsoft rolled out one piece of this strategy via its delivery of Virtual Machine Scale Sets . Virtual Machine Scale Sets allow users to create thousands of identical virtual machines so as to be able to scale big compute and big data applications quickly. [1] [1] By Mary Jo Foley for All About Microsoft

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