Today at its Ignite conference, Microsoft announced a major step toward breaking this cycle. The tech giant revealed that Azure SQL, its flagship transactional database, is now integrated into ...

All of those databases have different resource ... rights (something Microsoft also recently introduced for the regular Azure SQL databases), and real-time encryption of data and logs.

Citrix Systems is making its cloud-based storage service ... the ability to manage data on behalf of its customers using Microsoft’s Azure. Until now, the company has only used Amazon’s ...