Microsoft may have promised multiple future releases of on-premises Windows Server, but that doesn’t mean you continue to manage and use those servers the way you always have. Key to Windows Server’s ...

Announced in November 2019 at the Ignite conference, Azure Arc has become the cornerstone of Microsoft’s hybrid and multi-cloud strategy. With Arc, customers can bring existing infrastructure running ...

One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...

Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, SQL Azure, Azure Table Storage, Databricks, Fabric -- Microsoft, as we all know, struggles to name its products clearly. Unclear naming can lead to customer confusion. I ...

SQL Server on Azure Local is generally available. Review disconnected deployment requirements, separate licensing, and ...

Microsoft rolled out a series of new Azure Data services on March 2 as part of its flurry of news coming out of the virtual Microsoft Ignite 2021 conference. Among the data items unveiled at Ignite ...

One of the advantages of the cloud is scale. We don’t call the big three cloud platforms hyperscale for nothing; they have massive data centers all around the world with millions of servers that can ...

In the latest announcement coming over what we’re terming “Database Week,” Redis is announcing an OEM deal with Microsoft to implement Redis Enterprise as new tiers for its existing Azure Cache for ...

Microsoft launched its Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL services to general availability (GA) in 2018. When those services began their preview the year before, the notion that Microsoft itself ...

Microsoft Corp. is adding to the data management capabilities of its Azure cloud with the launch today of two new services into general availability. Company officials said in a series of blog posts ...

Microsoft has unveiled new capabilities and service tiers in the Azure database space, including Hyperscale for PostgreSQL, APIs for Apache Spark and etcd, and online migrations for Oracle databases.

The company also announced general availability for the Azure Synapse data warehousing and analytics service. Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a “unified data governance service” as part of its Azure ...