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 ...

The service is currently in preview for SQL Databases from version 2012 and up, SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Microsoft also provides install instructions for the Hotpatch preview when it's used with "virtual machines built from a ISO" for Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Azure Edition in this document.

Microsoft is bringing some of its newly-announced Windows Azure services -- like virtual machine hosting and Web site hosting -- to Windows Server. Microsoft announced immediate availability of ...

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.