Microsoft said the new Atlanta facility uses almost no water to stay cool, a major shift in data center design.

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud is getting boosted with an array of data-focused updates, with expanded capabilities for its Intelligent Data Platform and new functions in its main database offerings ...

Microsoft today announced Azure Data Lake, a new data repository for big data analytics workloads, during its Build developer conference keynote. The idea behind Data Lake is — as the name implies — ...

Microsoft is ramping up its Azure public cloud in its effort to gnaw away at the hindquarters of Amazon Web Services, which it trails in the ongoing drive to herd enterprise computing into the cloud.

In a blog post penned by Microsoft's president and CTO of Microsoft Specialized Clouds, Douglas Phillips, the company has ...

Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are expanding their four-year-old cloud relationship with a deal that will colocate Oracle’s Exadata database-optimized server and Real Application Clusters in ...

Microsoft's portfolio of PaaS databases has grown way beyond Azure SQL. Here are its most important cloud-based database services, and exactly how each one works differently from the other. As you ...

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Microsoft said in a 22:49 UTC status report yesterday that its West Europe region, located in the Netherlands, was ...

Microsoft has released a free trial of its cloud-based relational database. The community technology preview (CTP) of SQL Azure Database was made available Tuesday, along with a preview of an SQL ...

Under shadow of US CLOUD Act, Redmond releases raft of services to calm customers in the EU Microsoft is again banging the ...