Enhanced update management supports enterprise compliance and mission-critical workloads.

For those of you still using SQL Server 2005, Microsoft will completely end support on April 12th 2016. You can head over here to check out upgrade guidelines, download migration tools, and read more ...

If company data is stored with a cloud provider, they usually handle encryption. However, for confidential data, you should use your own keys. If you have your data in the Azure cloud, you want to ...

Microsoft handed over encryption keys for its hard drive encryption software BitLocker to the FBI last year, complying with a search warrant tied to a fraud investigation in Guam. This marks the first ...

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UK enterprises selecting between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure must weigh compliance capabilities against the backdrop of evolving UK data protection law. The Data (Use and Access) Act ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

An outage on Microsoft’s Azure cloud services Wednesday morning disrupted operations for customers worldwide including Alaska Airlines, Xbox users and Microsoft 365 subscribers. The incident came just ...

The recent “HITS in the cloud” webinar, hosted by Altron Digital Business and Microsoft South Africa, had a single message: SQL Server remains at the centre of enterprise operations. SQL is ubiquitous ...