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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft announced a smorgasbord of updates to its Azure cloud platform today, primarily aimed at helping companies migrate database workloads to its datacenters. These workloads are typically ...

Enterprise workload migrations to Microsoft Azure can be a long and involved process. Architects, developers and administrators need to account for application dependencies and map out potential ...

One of the first things cloud architect Bill Zack did after moving from Connecticut to Nashville in 2013 was to form a Microsoft Azure User Group. Launched with just four initial members, the ...

Welcome to the first of a two-part series. In this first part, I'll talk about the physical infrastructure that Microsoft uses to ensure availability and provide a high degree of uptime for the Azure ...

Making migration to Microsoft’s Azure products and services easier is a big theme this week at Ignite, the company’s annual conference for developers and IT professionals. The Redmond, Wash.-based ...