BlueTalon, a provider of data governance and compliance solutions, has been acquired by Microsoft for an undisclosed amount.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 29, 2019
SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 will no longer receive security patches from Microsoft as of Tuesday, July 9.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 09, 2019
The database management system (DBMS) market's growth is increasingly being driven by cloud services, not by more traditional on-premises systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2019
Microsoft's Azure Backup service can now support SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 24, 2019
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella kicked off the 2019 Build conference on Monday by describing his company's four distinct platform opportunities for development.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 07, 2019
Organizations running Windows and other Microsoft applications can now take advantage of improved integrations with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2019
Microsoft's Azure Backup for SQL Server solution, which is used to backup SQL Server when the relational database management system is housed on Azure datacenter virtual machines, became generally available this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 19, 2019
Microsoft this week acquired Citus Data, whose flagship offering is an extension that scales out the open source PostgreSQL relational database management system in datacenters.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 24, 2019
A raft of improvements are coming to Microsoft's database products, including migration support to Azure SQL Database, Apache Kafka Support on Azure Event Hubs, Azure SQL Data Warehouse improvements and yet another preview of the coming SQL Server 2019 product.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2018
Microsoft is changing a few things in the way it services SQL Server, starting with SQL Server 2017 and including the upcoming SQL Server 2019, which reached the preview stage at last month's Ignite conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 09, 2018
Microsoft recently began offering Project VAST, which stands for "Visual Auditing Security Tool," to its Microsoft Premier customers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 11, 2018
First unveiled at last year's Microsoft Ignite conference, the Azure File Sync service is now ready for commercial use, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 20, 2018
Organizations using SQL Server 2008/R2 and Windows Server 2008/R2 products can add three years of patch support via Microsoft's new Extended Security Updates plans, the company announced Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2018
The latest addition to Microsoft's sprawling Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) product line, SQL ATP, is now available for Azure SQL Database users.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 18, 2018
Microsoft this week released service pack 2 (SP2) of SQL Server 2016, nearly a year and a half after releasing SP1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 26, 2018