Microsoft is making a series of enhancements to its Azure SQL Database, including a new “Premium RS” tier, as the big public cloud providers roll out new database products and features to attract the ...

Almost all database workloads are now (or eventually will be) virtualized. High availability (HA) clusters using virtual servers provide the application protection needed to satisfy even the most ...

Data security provider Druva Inc. today announced expanded support for Microsoft Azure, including cloud-native data protection for Azure SQL and Azure Blob Storage. The new protection builds on ...

Azure Migrate now supports production-ready SQL Server migrations to Azure virtual machines with integrated assessment and migration tools.

Depending on how you look at it, a database is a kind of sophisticated storage system or storage is a kind of a reduction of a database. In the real world, where databases and storage are separate, ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

If you’d asked an IT professional whether object storage is any good for databases, the answer over most of the past decade or so would have been a resounding “no”. The response would have been pretty ...

Google is making a number of announcements around its Cloud Platform today. Most of these focus on its various cloud database services, but the company is also making a major update to its low-cost ...