Microsoft ups ante with G-Series virtual machines on Azure

Microsoft has debuted a new series of VM (virtual machines) in the cloud and it claims that its G-Series are the most powerful available – from any provider on the market - in the public cloud.They all use an unidentified member of the Intel Xeon E5 v3 family; one that is particularly popular in data centres and has been adopted by the likes of Lenovo, Oracle and Amazon already.The smallest available VM size is the Standard_G1 with two cores, 28GB of RAM and 412GB local storage while the Stand