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 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 ...

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

Alternatively, if you’re using .NET 6, you can use Arm-based virtual machines ... different base server specifications in Azure, with AMD and Intel CPUs as well as Arm, Microsoft has introduced ...

Microsoft is working on multiple fronts to improve resiliency of its Azure ... our servers to be like tardigrades," Russinovich said. "We don't want to have to reboot the virtual machines (VMs ...

One of the more interesting announcements at Microsoft ... Azure Portal, deploying policies and services to virtual machines and Kubernetes. It also includes containerized versions of Azure’s ...

Microsoft will also allow customers to host SQL Server and SharePoint Server on Azure, Foley said. The company will enable this by letting customers make virtual machines (VMs) persistent on Azure.

Microsoft has announced ... When it officially launches, Azure Dedicated Host will support virtual machines running Windows, Linux and SQL Server with pricing on a per host basis.

Next, in 2017, Microsoft revealed that 40% of Azure virtual machines (VM ... largely what runs enterprise computing both on in-house servers and on the cloud. Windows Server has been declining ...