At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced the launch of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, its latest NoSQL database offering and a competitor to Cassandra-centric companies like ...

The cloud is becoming increasingly distributed, with container technologies allowing easy deployment of what had been cloud functionality to devices at the edge of the network. What began with ...

Building cloud-native applications at scale requires choosing your stack carefully. One popular tool is Apache’s Cassandra project, a NoSQL database designed to scale rapidly without affecting ...

On the 16th of November, Microsoft made Azure Reserved Virtual Machine (VM) Instances (RIs) generally available to customers worldwide. They are now able to reserve VMs on a one- or three-year term ...

A service-like container instance deployment method is removing some of the roadblocks to container-based apps in the public cloud. To capitalize on the benefits of public cloud computing -- ...

Cloud adoption gives organizations the flexibility to scale infrastructure on demand, launch new services quickly, and support a modern workforce. But that flexibility can come with an unexpected ...

Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's licensing ...

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is an integrated environment to manage a SQL Server infrastructure. It provides a user interface and a group of tools with rich script editors that ...

Microsoft has ignited the next stage in the discontinuation of SQL Data Sync: As of September 9, it is no longer possible to create new SQL Data Sync deployments in Azure subscriptions that have not ...