Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options, plus some open source workload additions. Most ...

Recently, I was approached by a small but growing technology company with an urgent problem: Microsoft’s announcement regarding the retirement of Azure Database for MariaDB had caught them completely ...

On August 30, Microsoft announced the public preview of the Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) to support online migrations of various databases to Azure. What’s an “online migration”? Online ...

Most IaaS providers offer migration tools to help users move workloads out of a local data center and into the cloud. Microsoft, which has a large on-premises install base prime for a move to cloud, ...

Microsoft Azure launched a database migration service that allows businesses to migrate their Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server databases to the Azure cloud. In a blog post, Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie, ...

Despite more than a decade of cloud migration, there’s still a vast amount of data running on-premises. That’s not surprising since data migrations, even between similar systems, are complex, slow, ...

Migration of data to a cloud platform is not easy, but there are tools and services that simplify the process. To ease the complexity and draw customers to the cloud, providers such as AWS, Microsoft ...

Google officially debuted its new database migration service (DMS) today, designed to make it easier for Google Cloud customers to transfer their MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server databases to ...

Microsoft's cloud DBaaS has had a whirlwind month with the introduction of managed instances, database migration tools and more. Here's what each feature does and when to use it. This month, Microsoft ...