Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren looking at the future of cloud computing and SQL Server.  Read more...

Microsoft is working to certify vendors to build private clouds, which Steve Jones thinks is a great idea.  Read more...

Crunching data or having access to vast amounts of data is crucial for many applications.   Read more...

Most business applications you write probably utilize some kind of relational database. And, as a .NET developer, the chances are that database is Microsoft SQL Server. This article walks you through migrating your SQL Server database applications to the cloud with SQL Azure.  Read more...

This week Steve talks about cloud computing, and the fact that a lot of what the cloud does is no big deal. But it can be helpful to IT professionals.  Read more...

Will DBAs need to perform more complex financial analysis of the options they consider when building and tuning software systems? Steve Jones thinks it might be a skill needed in cloud computing.  Read more...

Cloud computing is becoming more and more prevalent in technology. However most people think of a public cloud on the Internet. Steve Jones says a private cloud might be a better idea for many companies.  Read more...

There has been a lot of talk about moving to cloud based computing, and cloud based services. Steve Jones comments on what this might mean today.  Read more...

Phil Factor believes that there will have to be further compromises between the pioneers of The Cloud and the regulators, before companies feel safe in entrusting their financial data to such an abstract service, seemingly 'remote from sand and iron'.  Read more...

The cornucopia of products for handling distributed data in the cloud includes everything from lightweight key-value stores to industrial-strength databases  Read more...

The cloud services from Microsoft for SQL Server are known as SQL Azure. MVP Jacob Sebastian brings us a introductory article about how to work with this service.  Read more...

The cornucopia of products for handling distributed data in the cloud includes everything from lightweight key-value stores to industrial-strength databases  Read more...

Don Schlichting introduces the Microsoft Azure service and explores the SQL Data Services (SDS).  Read more...

Recently Google was unavailable for a good part of one day. Steve Jones felt the impact and thinks this could slow the adoption of cloud computing.  Read more...

Recently Google was unavailable for a good part of one day. Steve Jones felt the impact and thinks this could slow the adoption of cloud computing.  Read more...

Recently Google was unavailable for a good part of one day. Steve Jones felt the impact and thinks this could slow the adoption of cloud computing.  Read more...

Recently Google was unavailable for a good part of one day. Steve Jones felt the impact and thinks this could slow the adoption of cloud computing.  Read more...