A comparison of SQL Server's throughput performance on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives the edge to Microsoft's cloud. "Azure emerged as the clear leader across both Windows and ...

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 ...

Microsoft is giving its Cloud Solution Provider partners full access to Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances (RI), the company said Thursday. Microsoft also revealed that CSPs will be able to sell ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced new cloud-hosted versions of its SQL Server database service as two older on-premises varieties finally will see the end of extended support Tuesday. Having transformed ...

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Microsoft today announced a GS-Series for organizations tapping Azure virtual machines (VMs). The new GS-Series offers five VM sizes with the same specifications as the G-Series of VMs that Microsoft ...

For organizations looking to “go to the cloud”, as much as Microsoft has had Azure Services that allows orgs to rewrite their apps and host them in the cloud, this new Azure Virtual Machines actually ...