Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service. Both use the same ...

The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio can be as low as 2:1, ...

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is a chock-a-block with handy backup and restore features. It doesn’t have a server edition, but the full disk-imaging options in the Advanced and Premium editions ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

Organizations are using generative AI to stay ahead of the competition, but the real advantage lies in harnessing the power of your own data securely and at scale. One of the most exciting new ...

Today, Microsoft announced the preview of SQL Server 2025, the successor to the popular SQL Server 2022, which was released in 2022. With SQL Server 2025, Microsoft is targeting AI apps both ...

“Azure SQL Managed Instance strikes the right balance by providing an agile and scalable solution, while allowing us to rapidly deploy a highly available and geographically redundant solution at scale ...

A step-by-step guide to using SAN-less failover clustering software to support SQL Server’s Always On Failover Clustering in the public cloud The thing about clouds is that they can change shape even ...