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 ...

Downtime is expensive, both in dollars and end user trust. As organizations shift more workloads to the Azure cloud, ensuring constant availability and rapid recovery is no longer a nice-to-have -- it ...

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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 ...

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From how virtual machines can impact your Azure IaaS and Paas uptimes to what to never do, top cloud architect Peter De Tender offers his best tips and tricks for reaching 99.95 percent uptime by ...

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Microsoft’s January 2026 Azure Database for MySQL update delivers security patches and reliability fixes, with no new features added.