Disk performance when starting all lab virtual machines simultaneously was 73 MB/sec. The Need for Speed Overall, I found this approach really easy; the lab VMs start and run incredibly fast in Azure ...

How-To Step-by-Step: Creating VMs in Microsoft Azure Here's what to do (and what not to do) when you want to move a workload to the cloud using a virtual machine on someone else's metal. By Paul ...

Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks.