Microsoft plans to release a 'General Purpose' version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the 'general availability' (GA) commercial-release stage, 'starting July 30, 2021.' ...

Recently Microsoft announced the general availability as per the end of July of Azure Arc-enabled SQL, which extends the Azure SQL instances to be hosted on an edge data center or in a multi-cloud ...

Microsoft’s Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is perhaps best thought of as a way of extending on-premises data into Cosmos DB. There’s been demand for on-premises Cosmos DB since ...

The ability to run Azure SQL Managed Instance -- a cloud version of SQL Server -- on non-Azure clouds, and even on-premises, will be generally available and production-ready on July 30th, 2021.

A new benefit for SQL Server 2022 includes the ability to use an Azure SQL Managed Instance for disaster recovery at the cost of compute and storage.

AWS hits back at Microsoft Azure with 2TB RAM X1 instance primed for SAP HANA Amazon and Microsoft are vying over who's got the biggest RAM and best instance to run big-data applications in the cloud.