During the recent Microsoft Ignite conference, the cloud provider announced the early preview of Azure HorizonDB, a managed Postgres-compatible database service for enterprise workloads.

Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are expanding their four-year-old cloud relationship with a deal that will colocate Oracle’s Exadata database-optimized server and Real Application Clusters in ...

Organizations in today’s digital economy are constantly facing unprecedented pressure to innovate, accelerate decision-making ...

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Microsoft's portfolio of PaaS databases has grown way beyond Azure SQL. Here are its most important cloud-based database services, and exactly how each one works differently from the other. As you ...

Microsoft recently pulled its underwater data center from the seabed floor, discovering that the 864 servers inside were eight times more reliable than those on land. After two years of being ...

Microsoft equips Azure with functions for local operation and data sovereignty. However, the sovereignty promises raise ...

The expanded support provides visibility into query-level metrics and detailed explain plans so all Microsoft customers can benefit from Database Monitoring With this expanded support, engineers and ...

Microsoft is shipping a data centre in a 40-foot container. What’s inside, and what’s it for? Your email has been sent If there’s one thing you can rely on, in today’s world, it’s change. And change ...

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure. When ...

The flaw ‘broke one of the fundamental things about the cloud – that you can’t access another person’s data,’ says security provider Wiz. Cloud security provider Wiz disclosed Thursday that earlier ...

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...