I am dealing with a company (of 15-20 people) that is currently running a PE2900 (tower) that is on its last legs and long overdue for an upgrade. It used to handle Crystal Reports, Quickbooks, SQL ...

With new R2 licensing, costs go up and unlimited virtualization rights on SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition go away ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Idera, a provider of Microsoft SQL Server management and administration tools, announced SQL virtual database 1.3, the latest release for this solution that enables backup files to look and act just ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

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). Sponsored by ...

In addition, Microsoft announced that it is expanding virtualization use rights to allow unlimited virtual instances on servers that are fully licensed for SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition.

For P2V of a SQL server, my practice has been to convert the system drive (C:\) of the source system and utilize one of two recovery strategies. The first is to create the data volume of the SQL ...

There's going to be more than one way for customers to take advantage of Microsoft's server application virtualization (Server App-V) technology when it becomes commercially available later this year.