Microsoft licensing is famously complicated. There are consultancies that run workshops to help businesses get the most from their licenses, showing them how they should purchase these many different ...

Cloud services are increasingly consumed directly by distributed development teams, to the point that the spend on cloud has become a clearly visible line item on an organizational expense sheet. This ...

Here's a look at how the cloud leaders stack up, the hybrid market, and the SaaS players that run your company as well as their latest strategic moves. Microsoft also is working on an ...

With hybrid becoming the norm, cloud expert Paul Schnackenburg looks at the different flavors of hybrid Azure and how they compare, in which scenarios you'd use each one and links to learn more.

New Delhi, December 10, 2020 – Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Azure Hybrid Benefit solution for Linux customers across India. It helps customers seamlessly migrate on-premises ...

Microsoft announced this week that it plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, ...

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how. The geographic distribution of cloud data centers makes it ...

About 5,500 of the SQL Server faithful came out for the PASS Summit 2018 in Seattle last November. As usual, the event had the feel of a great big family reunion. It’s always a fun time, with lots of ...

A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...