The Azure Portal front-end for managing the service will also be included. As such, there will be plenty of things missing, such as SQL databases and machine learning.

Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options, plus some open source workload additions. Most ...

Using a connection to Azure Arc, which is part of the SQL Server 2022 setup process, on-premises users can now also opt for cloud-enabled billing to manage consumption spikes or for ad hoc use cases.

Its high degree of compatibility with cloud releases of SQL Server, which includes numerous editions of Azure SQL Database — especially Azure SQL Database MI — means that on-premise customers ...

There are two excellent tools that'll help with assessing the current state of the JABB infrastructure, as well as giving guidance for migrating to Azure. The first is the Microsoft Assessment and ...

Azure SQL infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service options (source: Sept. 30, 2020 Azure blog). The diagram also shows rationales for when to use Azure Arc.

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how.

Azure Migrate is also integrated with Azure Database Migration Service for database discovery and migration. As you would expect, it supports Microsoft SQL Server on-premises migration to the ...

While Azure does not offer a service called Direct Peering like Google, it does provide Azure ExpressRoute, which allows businesses to create private connections between their on-premises ...

Gartner ranks Amazon Web Services (AWS) at the top of the overall cloud infrastructure-as-a-service model in its most recent "Magic Quadrant" analysis, with Azure ranked a close second.