With Extended Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 ending in July 2019, to be followed six months later by the end of Extended Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 in January 2020 ...

March 7, 2018 — Microsoft has announced investments that dramatically expand the choice and ROI of moving your SQL Server and open source applications to Azure. SQL Server customers can now try the ...

There's a catch: They have to bring their workloads to the Azure cloud. But for some users, this could be a feasible option. Extended support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is set to end in July 2019 ...

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 ...

In September 2014, Microsoft made available as a limited preview its Migration Accelerator (MA) tool, designed to help users migrate their on-premises Windows Server workloads to Azure. On January 14, ...

Microsoft’s free cloud migration tools simplify the process of bringing applications and services out of your data center and into the cloud. Migrating from on-premises to the cloud is often fraught ...

(Note: After an award-winning career in the media business covering the tech industry, Bob Evans was VP of Strategic Communications at SAP in 2011, and Chief Communications Officer at Oracle from 2012 ...