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Published March 5, 2024 • 11 min read

What’s new in Azure Data, AI, and Digital Applications: Data operates as the currency of AI

By Jessica Hawk Corporate Vice President, Data, AI, and Digital Applications, Product Marketing

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.

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Azure Migrate, Azure SQL Database, Databases, Migration, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines, Thought leadership

Published June 2, 2022 • 5 min read

Find out why your SQL Server data belongs on Azure

By Peter Carlin Corporate Vice President, Azure Data Quality

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.

Announcements, Databases, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Machines

Published October 24, 2019 • 3 min read

Leverage Azure premium file shares for high availability of data

By Mine Tokus Principal Program Manager

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.

Best practices, Databases, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Published October 22, 2019 • 2 min read

Gain on OLTP price-performance with Azure SQL Virtual Machines

By Mine Tokus Principal Program Manager

Today, most applications are running online transactional processing (OLTP) transactions.

Announcements, Azure Backup, Compute, Management and Governance, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Published March 18, 2019 • 3 min read

Azure Backup for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines now generally available!

By Microsoft Azure

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.

Compute, How to, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Published February 7, 2019 • 3 min read

Simplify Always On availability group deployments on Azure VM with SQL VM CLI

By Mine Tokus Principal Program Manager

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.

Compute, How to, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Published December 13, 2018 • 4 min read

Automate Always On availability group deployments with SQL Virtual Machine resource provider

By Mine Tokus Principal Program Manager

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.

Compute, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Published November 26, 2018 • 2 min read

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines resource provider

By Mine Tokus Principal Program Manager

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.

Compute, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Published November 26, 2018 • 4 min read

Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

By Mine Tokus Principal Program Manager

Azure Hybrid Benefit (AHB) for SQL Server allows you to use on-premises SQL Server licenses to run SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.

Compute, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Published November 6, 2018 • 2 min read

Mission critical performance with Ultra SSD for SQL Server on Azure VM

By Microsoft Azure

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.

Product: SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

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