Joey on SQL Server Top Tips To Make SQL Server Run Faster on Azure VMs Storage and performance can be quite different in the cloud.

Storage and performance can be quite different in the cloud. It's important to choose the right VM size and configure your storage properly to keep SQL Server workloads running smoothly.

A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2).</p> ...

Microsoft Azure's virtual machine infrastructure offers a cloud data management solution without a fully managed service.

The only way to get extended support for 2008 versions of Windows and SQL Server is in the cloud. Here's why you should be thinking about 2012 migrations now as well.

Wondering which Microsoft apps and services are validated and supported on Windows Azure for running in virtual machine? Here's the list.

Users can mix and match different Azure VM sizes within the same VM series on a given host, Microsoft says. Whether this new option will save users money or cost them more seems to be up for debate.