The feature that provides the ability to write SQL Server backups to the Azure Blob storage service was released in SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU2. You can use this functionality to back up to and restore ...

Storage Spaces Direct, new in Windows Server 2016, enables customers to create highly scalable and flexible storage solutions, using local storage. The ability to aggregate locally attached storage ...

Last week we announced the General Availability of Azure Premium Storage for Azure Virtual Machines. Premium Storage provides steady high throughput (up to 64,000 IOPs; 8x more than Standard Storage) ...

Database admins are able to find storage performance problems easily using Performance Monitor. But why is it so hard to get storage administrators to find and fix storage performance problems? To ...

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 ...

Starting with SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU2, you can now write SQL Server backups directly to the Azure Blob storage service. You can use this functionality to back up to and restore from the Azure Blob ...

Microsoft's first attempt at creating a software-defined storage platform wasn't a big hit. Its updated version just might be. One of the most difficult things in designing IT infrastructure is to get ...