Microsoft Corp. today announced a slew of new services and updates to its Azure public cloud platform designed to make it easier for users to migrate database workloads to its cloud data centers.

Microsoft is now enabling testers of its Migration Accelerator tool to move Linux physical and virtual workloads more easily to Azure.

Migrate SQL Server Workloads Microsoft is making it seamless to move any SQL Server application to Azure without application changes with the new deployment option in Azure SQL Database, Managed ...

The Azure Migrate solution is expected to be a production-ready product for organizations in the first half of 2018, Microsoft indicated this week.

Microsoft’s offer: “Customers who migrate workloads to Azure virtual machines will have access to Extended Security Updates for both SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 for three ...

Microsoft wants to give customers an easy way to move Windows Server workloads from VMware and Amazon environments into the Azure cloud, and at least one partner loves the idea.

A partnership is in the works between Microsoft and VMware to make it much easier for enterprise customers to move VMware workloads into the Azure public cloud, according to a published report.

Shattering any doubts about the Azure Cloud's ability to handle the world's most-complex and data-intensive workloads, Microsoft recently said that some of its largest customers are migrating ...

With end of support looming for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has a new option for those users to keep getting security updates: By moving workloads to Azure.