“Free” is a term rarely associated with Microsoft offerings, especially at the server end of the spectrum. Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, Hyper-V — IT admins know functionality comes at a ...

To fend off Google's Cloud SQL, RDS adds multi-zone replication, 99.95% uptime. RDS was beta? I've been reading about it for a few months now pending our recent move to AWS and the word beta never ...

The San Jose, Calif.-based hosted services and software-as-a-service provider added Microsoft Corp.’s MS-SQL Server 2005 to its Concentric Windows Pro and Enterprise Plans Hosted services provider ...

The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) on Monday unveiled a limited private community technology preview (CTP) of "SQL Server Application and Multi-Server Management [tools], as part of ...

It has been over three years since Amazon Web Services introduced its Relational Database Service (RDS). But until now, RDS has ostensibly been in "beta"—available only to a subset of customers. This ...