Microsoft announced last week a new pricing scheme for its SQL Azure cloud database service. Previously, SQL Azure databases were limited to either 1GB (for “Web edition”) or 10GB (for “business ...

Microsoft made a raft of cloud-related announcements at its TechEd conference last week. But one of them got relatively little notice: Changes to the company's SQL Azure cloud database pricing. As I ...

Welcome to the first of a two-part series. In this first part, I'll talk about the physical infrastructure that Microsoft uses to ensure availability and provide a high degree of uptime for the Azure ...