Microsoft on Monday announced that Azure Backup for SQL Server had reached "general availability" status, meaning it's deemed ready for production-environment use. This service is used to backup SQL ...

Microsoft added the option of using the Azure Backup service to provide recovery support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 when those workloads are hosted on Azure virtual machines. The Azure ...

Microsoft on Monday responded to last week's Amazon Web Services cloud price cuts by lowering the price of its Azure virtual server and storage services across the board. And Microsoft now says it's ...

Microsoft released Azure in February of this year and has been rushing to catch up with the features offered by cloud leader Amazon and other competitors like IBM, Cisco Systems, EMC Corp., VMware and ...

MSDN subscribers get a host of new benefits as well, including credit toward Azure time, making cloud-based development free in some cases. Commencing today, Microsoft is making it cheaper -- much ...

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