Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. To ...

Microsoft is trying to make good on its commitment to managing not only assets in Azure cloud but on customer premises and in other providers' clouds. Azure Arc for servers, a centralized management ...

Microsoft continues to bring Azure-based managed services to Azure Arc, the hybrid and multi-cloud platform. At BUILD 2021, held last week, the company announced the availability of Platform as a ...

But for many organizations, public cloud deployment is not practical. Constraints could include data residency laws, lack of public cloud presence in certain geographies, and/or highly stringent near ...

When I first heard Microsoft talk about Azure Arc, the vision for hybrid IT sounded interesting, but technical details were thin on the ground. Fast forward to now and there are so many different ...

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In concert with Arc-enabled Azure SQL's GA, Microsoft is announcing it is working with a broad network of managed service providers (MSPs) and solution integrators (SIs) to help customers deploy and ...

Organizations today are increasingly operating in multicloud and hybrid environments, using a mix of public, private and edge clouds to manage their technology assets. That has created opportunities ...

At the Ignite 2021 conference, Microsoft has announced updates to the Azure Arc platform that includes tighter integration with VMware infrastructure and Azure Stack HCI. When Azure Arc was announced ...

At first look, the big hyperscale public clouds are much the same; they offer similar services and charge similar prices. But each has its own specialty as a result of its parent company’s history.