Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

The recent “HITS in the cloud” webinar, hosted by Altron Digital Business and Microsoft South Africa, had a single message: SQL Server remains at the centre of enterprise operations. SQL is ubiquitous ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

We’re excited to announce a new migration capability in Azure Arc to simplify and accelerate SQL Server migration. This new capability, now generally available, is powered by Azure Database Migration ...

Microsoft has rolled out a redesigned continuous migration assessment tool for SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc. The new experience is now generally available and brings a more streamlined, ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

Nokia (NOK) has announced a five-year expansion of its multi-year agreement to supply Microsoft (MSFT) Azure with datacenter routers and switches. The partnership will grow Nokia’s global footprint to ...

AI is transforming everything we do, including how we interact with data. Data is the fuel for AI. Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL is the data platform to power today’s modern applications with ...

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I've been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do. Have you ever struggled with a database performance problem or ever struggled to ...