Microsoft’s Azure cloud service has soared to become the No. 2 cloud provider behind Amazon Web Services, and although Microsoft will tell you it’s because of the breadth of Azure’s offerings, an ...

Over the past decade, companies have virtualized more and more of their IT. We’ve moved to cloud services and “DevOps” to build and deploy bundles of our new applications. But a significant portion of ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Today's enterprises have accepted that the cloud is here to stay. One study from Deloitte ...

Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options, plus some open source workload additions. Most ...

One of our customers at the Windows Azure Migration Labs had an existing application consisting of a SQL Server 2005 back end, a LINQ to SQL data-access layer and a front end using both MVC Framework ...

My last couple of months have been filled with a major migration to Microsoft Azure for a client, who has both a very large data warehouse and an online transaction processing (OLTP) Web site. In all, ...

At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system (RDBMS) ...