Oracle has announced a partnership with Microsoft to bring some of its database infrastructure, including hardware and services, to Azure.

Microsoft joins Oracle as the only other hyperscaler to offer Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Services to simplify cloud migration, multicloud deployment and management Austin, TX and Redmond, WA ...

Both MySQL and PostgreSQL are now generally available on the Azure Database service, Microsoft announced recently. The two open source database management systems, which have been in preview on Azure ...

This AI-optimized infrastructure is now standard throughout the Azure cloud computing fabric, which includes a portfolio of virtual machines, connected compute and storage resources optimized for AI ...

Service Fabric, first revealed in 2015, grew out of the infrastructure Microsoft developed to build and run large-scale cloud services, including Azure SQL, Cortana, and Skype for Business.

Microsoft Fabric is a new end-to-end data and analytics platform that centers around Microsoft's OneLake data lake but can also pull data from Amazon S3.

Maia and Cobalt are new custom silicon chips built by Microsoft for the era of artificial intelligence. Microsoft is using these chips to overhaul its Azure cloud servers.

At its Ignite 2024 conference today, Microsoft announced a major step toward breaking down data silos separating transactional databases and analytical tools. The tech giant revealed that Azure ...

At Ignite, Microsoft shared several new enhancements for Fabric, setting up the platform as the unified data layer for next-gen AI apps.