Having covered Cloud Foundry, Force.com, Google App Engine and Red Hat OpenShift, we now take a look at Microsoft's PaaS offering ... single-point-of failure. SQL Azure is Microsoft SQL Server ...

“Today, we’re making additional Azure PaaS services and DevOps ... Supporting the new capability are new SQL and MySQL database resource providers. Microsoft is courting cloud developers ...

PaaS players, in addition to Microsoft with Azure ... By the same token, SQL Azure is meant, by design, to provide developers with as much of SQL Server's functionality as it makes sense to ...

“Only Microsoft, as of today, offers the broadest IaaS and PaaS from a single ... and others. The Azure Web Sites support both Windows Azure SQL Database and MySQL databases, plus an array ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure ...

Microsoft has quietly been putting a lot of impressive features in Azure SQL Database, and I expected them to land in the next version of SQL Server. While PaaS services like Azure SQL DB and ...

Microsoft this week rolled out additional features to its Azure Stack Technical Preview. The release comes just two weeks after the long-awaited debut of the Azure Stack preview, which promises a ...

Hackers are targeting Azure virtual machines (VM) using flawed Microsoft SQL servers as a stepping stone, security researchers have revealed. Microsoft’s experts recently reported observing the ...

In a recent benchmark, Microsoft claims that SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines can be up to 57% faster and cost up to 54% less than running a similar workload on AWS EC2. The study compares ...

Hackers have been observed trying to breach cloud environments through Microsoft SQL Servers ... actors to gain access to the SQL Server instance hosted on Azure Virtual Machine with elevated ...