Microsoft Corp. today announced a slew of new services and updates to its Azure public cloud platform designed to make it easier for users to migrate database workloads to its cloud data centers.

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service has soared to become the No. 2 cloud provider behind Amazon Web Services, and although Microsoft will tell you it’s because of the breadth of Azure’s offerings, an ...

On August 30, Microsoft announced the public preview of the Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) to support online migrations of various databases to Azure. What’s an “online migration”? Online ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

'What AMP does is try to accelerate the customers' comfort with Azure or even public cloud infrastructure for that matter,' says Jason Rook, vice president of market development for 10th Magnitude, ...

Latest version improves compatibility and streamlines migrations from legacy databases to SQL Server and Azure platforms.

As SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 reach the end of support in 2019, you’ll have an opportunity to upgrade to a cloud database service. Follow this step-by-step guide to manage change effectively as you ...

My last couple of months have been filled with a major migration to Microsoft Azure for a client, who has both a very large data warehouse and an online transaction processing (OLTP) Web site. In all, ...

Azure is a cloud computing platform and service created by Microsoft for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. It ...

Once a cutting-edge technology for outliers and early adopters, the cloud is now fundamental to IT success in a data-rich, high-velocity marketplace. Read author and consultant Wayne Eckerson’s new ...