Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

Amid the AI-heavy headlines at Microsoft's annual conference, several behind-the-scenes updates landed that could have a major impact on how IT teams build, run and scale core infrastructure in Azure.

Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and ...

Microsoft used its annual conference to roll out sweeping updates across Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Fabric, PostgreSQL and SQL Server tooling, signaling broad investments in performance, scalability ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

Microsoft Azure experienced a global outage on October 29. Microsoft customer-facing services were affected. Recovery came later that same day, but some problems linger. Last week, Amazon Web Services ...

It shouldn’t be a surprise that there’s a lot of Azure you can run on premises, thanks to platforms like Azure Stack. But there’s more to on-premises Azure than the familiar platforms and services.

Veeam described how it rearchitected its data platform to move beyond traditional backup and recovery, using Azure Cosmos DB as the foundation for an AI-powered semantic search system. In a ...

Organizations are under constant pressure to modernize their estate. Legacy infrastructure, manual processes, and increasing data volumes in silos make it harder to deliver the performance, security, ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...