Companies needing more speed and storage for their virtual machines (VMs) will soon have new options if they use Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. The GS-Series is for organizations wanting to scale ...

Microsoft recently published updated guidance for running SQL Server on Azure virtual machines (VMs). I wanted to share some of the highlights of the documentation, combined with my experiences ...

SQL Server on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VM) had up to 86.8% better price-performance when comparing Azure Hybrid Benefit to AWS License Mobility for three-year compute commitment, and up ...

Microsoft’s offer: “Customers who migrate workloads to Azure virtual machines will have access to Extended Security Updates for both SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 for three ...

Over the past year, Microsoft has seen customers use Linux in a third of its Azure virtual machines, up from 25 percent.

Running another virtual machine within another Azure virtual machine opens up more code-testing options for Microsoft's cloud customers.

The only way to get extended support for 2008 versions of Windows and SQL Server is in the cloud. Here's why you should be thinking about 2012 migrations now as well.