ZDNet

Microsoft readies public SQL Azure Reporting test build, as Salesforce launches a cloud database

Microsoft is allowing testers to register, as of December 7, for a public Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of the reporting services technology for its SQL Azure cloud database. Microsoft ...
ZDNet

SQL Reporting for Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud goes live

Microsoft's announcement of its Windows Azure spring update included a lot of moving parts. One that didn't get as much attention as it deserved was the the general availability of reporting services ...
Virtualization Review

SQL Server Runs Faster on Azure Cloud VMs than AWS EC2, Report Says

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 ...
Microsoft

Microsoft Announces New Database Consolidation Appliance, Enhances Cloud Offerings

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 13, 2011 — In today’s PASS Summit 2011 keynote address, Quentin Clark, corporate vice president of Microsoft SQL Server Database Systems Group, underscored the company’s ...