One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

Maybe you are still getting up-to-speed with the whole concept of cloud computing. If so, I have a lot of sympathy for you because there is so much to learn and because cloud technologies advance so ...

Microsoft has released a free trial of its cloud-based relational database. The community technology preview (CTP) of SQL Azure Database was made available Tuesday, along with a preview of an SQL ...

HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - Sep 10, 2012) - Today, Idera, a leading provider of application and server management solutions, announced Azure SQL Database Backup™, a free product that provides fast, ...

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When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.