The launch of Azure Orbital, timed for this week’s Microsoft Ignite conference for developers, can be taken as another sign that the final frontier is the next frontier for cloud computing.

Azure Arc is Microsoft’s hybrid and multi-cloud platform that seamlessly extends the capabilities of Azure public cloud to on-prem data centers, edge locations, and any public cloud.

Company officials provided information about that operating system, known as Azure Cloud Switch (ACS), in a September 17 blog post. Microsoft also demonstrated ACS at the recent SIGCOMM conference ...

VMware Cloud and Azure have several common offerings, but their approach varies. Here’s a closer look at how each supports multi-cloud environments, data analytics and zero-trust security.