Microsoft on Monday announced that Azure Backup for SQL Server had reached "general availability" status, meaning it's deemed ready for production-environment use. This service is used to backup SQL ...

Microsoft this week announced that its Azure Backup service now can back up Hyper-V virtual machines, as well as the files and folders of some of Microsoft's flagship servers. Azure Backup was ...

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Backup and recovery: Ah, IT’s very own sewer service. You manage huge libraries of tapes, babysit backup reports, and test recoveries both weekly and at random. And yet, with all of that, do you ever ...

With Extended Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 ending in July 2019, to be followed six months later by the end of Extended Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 in January 2020 ...

Microsoft Corp. last week began letting SQL Server users who have Software Assurance contracts set up fail-over databases at no extra cost, a new policy that some customers said could give Microsoft ...