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New Azure licensing policy helps Partners "do more business with our clients" despite competitor complaints
For our practice, anything that helps drive Azure helps us do more business with our client.
Microsoft's heavily investing in solar power for Arizona data centers
First Solar joins a growing list of Microsoft partners committed to providing the latest and very best renewable energy sources around
Azure grows revenue by 93%, announces new expert MSPs, speed improvements
Microsoft execs too the time to once again talking up its Azure investments and improvements coming to customers
Get Microsoft's Windows Server and SQL Server Premium Assurance for long-term confidence
Introducing Microsoft's new Windows Server Premium Assurance & SQL Server Premium Assurance.
SQL Server 2016 gets improved analysis performance and scalability in Service Pack 1
SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 was released today for Analysis Services with better improvements on the already efficient key features.
Here's everything that was new with Azure Government in September 2016
The company is beginning to focus update announcements into monthly blog post intended on keeping all users informed.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse gets database collation support
Azure SQL Data Warehouse database creation is much easier now that you can set a default collation out of the 3800 supported in the Azure portal.
Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Service Pack 1 hits general availability
Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) 2016 Service Pack 1 is now generally available. MIM is a way for Microsoft customers to manage and synchronize their identities between directories, databases, and applications on-premises, in the cloud using Azure or a combination of both.
Microsoft's Channel 9 demos SQL Server on Linux
Yesterday's episode of Data Exposed gives a sneak peek into a live demo of the SQL Server on Linux.
Visual Studio Team Services went down yesterday, here's the reason why
The Visual Studio team is now ready to clarify what exactly caused the outage and what they did to help bring the service back up for customers.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RC0 released
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 enables a cloud-ready information platform that will help organizations unlock breakthrough insights across the organization as well as quickly build solutions and extend data across on-premises and public cloud backed by capabilities for mission critical confidence.
- Deliver required uptime and data protection with AlwaysOn
- Gain breakthrough & predictable performance with ColumnStore Index
- Help enable security and compliance with new User-defined Roles and Default Schema for Groups