Azure at Microsoft Ignite 2025: All the intelligent cloud news explained
This week at Microsoft Ignite 2025, Azure introduces solutions that address your technology strategy questions with innovations designed for this very inflection point.
SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
What’s new in Azure Data, AI, and Digital Applications: Harness the power of intelligent appsÂ
Sharing insights on technology transformation along with important updates and resources about the data, AI, and digital application solutions that make Microsoft Azure the platform for the era of AI.
What’s new in Azure Data, AI, and Digital Applications: Data operates as the currency of AI
This month, like every month, I’m sharing a few of the latest updates and resources to help reinforce how Azure can fuel your innovation through data, AI, and digital application solutions.
Find out why your SQL Server data belongs on Azure
The global events of the last couple of years have introduced significant changes to how companies operate and the way we work, accelerating digital transformation for many as they seek the additional flexibility, scale, and cost savings of the cloud.
Leverage Azure premium file shares for high availability of data
SQL Server on Azure virtual machines brings cloud agility, elasticity and scalability benefits to SQL Server workloads. SQL virtual machine offers full control on the operating system , virtual machine size, storage subsystem, and the level of manageability needed for your workload.
Gain on OLTP price-performance with Azure SQL Virtual Machines
Today, most applications are running online transactional processing (OLTP) transactions.
Azure Backup for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines now generally available!
How do you back up your SQL Servers today? You could be using backup software that require you to manage backup servers, agents, and storage, or you could be writing elaborate custom scripts which need you to manage the backups on each server individually.
Simplify Always On availability group deployments on Azure VM with SQL VM CLI
Always On availability groups (AG) provide high availability and disaster recovery capabilities to your SQL Server database, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or a combination of both.
Automate Always On availability group deployments with SQL Virtual Machine resource provider
We are excited to share that a new, automated way to configure high availability solutions for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) is now available using our SQL VM resource provider.
SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines resource provider
SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines is a cost-effective lift and shift method to run SQL Server on cloud with full control of the version, edition of SQL Server, Operating System, and the VM size.
Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Hybrid Benefit (AHB) for SQL Server allows you to use on-premises SQL Server licenses to run SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.
Mission critical performance with Ultra SSD for SQL Server on Azure VM
We recently published Storage Configuration Guidelines for SQL Server on Azure VM summarizing the test findings from running TPC-E profile test workloads on premium storage configuration options. We continued this testing by including Ultra SSD.