IDG Contributor Network: Nearly 1 in 3 Azure virtual machines now run Linux

Linux is steadily increasing its dominance on Microsoft Azure. During his keynote at DockerCon in Seattle this week, Mark Russinovich CTO of Microsoft Azure said that the share of Azure virtual machines running Linux rose from 1:4 to nearly 1:3 in the past year.
In a blog post discussing Microsoft's container innovations, Russinovich cited a Forrester report, saying that “…over forty percent of CIOs view adoption of open source technologies as critical for them in the next year &nd