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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.