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Microsoft on Friday announced that its Azure Availability Zones datacenter uptime assurance offering for virtual machine (VM) workloads is now commercially available in two Azure regions. The new ...

A debate over what is the best way to assure high availability of Microsoft SQL Server databases on the Microsoft Azure cloud has emerged. Historically, Microsoft has encouraged IT teams to employ ...

The Azure Availability Zones uptime assurance offering for hosted workloads is now ready for use by some Azure users, according to a Microsoft announcement on Friday. The new service addition, which ...

Microsoft made a few notable Azure announcements this week, including an Azure Availability Zones expansion, plus ExpressRoute support for the Azure DevOps service. Azure Availability Zones have now ...

Microsoft has announced availability zones for the south of Brazil in São Paulo State, as promised in October 2020. The company also promised to expand its zone coverage during 2021. The announcement ...

Last year, Microsoft was slowly starting to ramp up its Azure Availability Zone coverage. Today, March 17, officials publicly committed to offering Azure Availability Zones in every county in which ...

Microsoft has announced general availability for Windows Azure Infrastructure Services with a promise to match any price drop from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Microsoft marked the occasion with a ...