Microsoft is making a series of enhancements to its Azure SQL Database, including a new “Premium RS” tier, as the big public cloud providers roll out new database products and features to attract the ...

Almost all database workloads are now (or eventually will be) virtualized. High availability (HA) clusters using virtual servers provide the application protection needed to satisfy even the most ...

Database systems require data files to store the data under management. These files, or data sets, reside on storage media. So storage management should be a key part of the database operations ...

AWS offers multiple options to host your databases serving OLTP workloads – host your own managed database on Amazon EC2 instances or use Amazon RDS managed by AWS. RDS manages high availability, ...

If you’d asked an IT professional whether object storage is any good for databases, the answer over most of the past decade or so would have been a resounding “no”. The response would have been pretty ...

Four key considerations to keep in mind when you need a database designed for analytical queries of vast quantities of time series data. SQL often struggles when it comes to managing massive amounts ...