Microsoft may have promised multiple future releases of on-premises Windows Server, but that doesn’t mean you continue to manage and use those servers the way you always have. Key to Windows Server’s ...

Microsoft has given its Azure Local on-prem cloud a major makeover to make it fit for duty powering large-scale sovereign ...

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Announced in November 2019 at the Ignite conference, Azure Arc has become the cornerstone of Microsoft’s hybrid and multi-cloud strategy. With Arc, customers can bring existing infrastructure running ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

With the preview of Azure Arc, Microsoft today announced a major step in the evolution of its hybrid cloud story. Azure Arc takes the work the company has done on projects like Azure Stack, throws in ...

You can directly onboard Windows Server machines to Azure Arc using a built-in utility. The wizard automates onboarding, checks prerequisites, and fetches and ...

Microsoft is trying to make good on its commitment to managing not only assets in Azure cloud but on customer premises and in other providers' clouds. Azure Arc for servers, a centralized management ...

Microsoft has launched Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server on Windows in the US Government, Virginia region. The Redmond giant called this a "major first step". Microsoft has recently announced that Azure ...

The Windows Server vNext build 25931 also has a new Storage Replica Enhanced Log for improvements in block replication. Users who are validating upgrades from Windows Server 2019 should not get this.

Microsoft has been steadily enabling more of its Azure services to run on other clouds, on-premises, and now, on Kubernetes clusters. On day one of its virtual Build 2021 developers conference, ...

At the Ignite 2021 conference, Microsoft has announced updates to the Azure Arc platform that includes tighter integration with VMware infrastructure and Azure Stack HCI. When Azure Arc was announced ...