A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...

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Research firm GigaOm compared throughput performance between SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines and SQL Server on AWS EC2, finding the former enjoyed a definite speed edge. "Azure emerged as the ...

Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud tackle two very different cloud computing technology problems today, but are destined to emulate each other over time, Microsoft cloud ...

Here’s where SMBs and enterprises are placing their workloads on private cloud platforms from leaders AWS, Microsoft and VMware. “Most organizations are taking a multi-cloud, hybrid approach in which ...

Cloud computing has transformed IT. But cloud and on-premises infrastructure are being seen less as either/or and increasingly as complementary. There are good reasons to keep infrastructure on-site, ...

Microsoft announced Azure VM Image Builder has reached general availability, providing a managed service that reduces the complexity of manually creating virtual machines images -- with associated ...

AWS customers can utilize multiple techniques to protect data at rest and data in motion. For example, the data stored in Amazon S3 can be encrypted using custom keys managed by users. The data ...