Performance issues occur in different operating systems or applications, and every issue requires a unique approach to troubleshoot. CPU, memory, networking, and input/output (I/O) are often key ...

This article provides an overview of SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) on the Windows platform. If you're new to SQL Server on Azure VMs, check out the SQL Server on Azure VM Overview video ...

Everything you need to know about how to select, deploy, optimize and more when it comes to managing your virtual machines in Microsoft Azure. In last month's column I covered the basic step-by-step ...

It's been a long road, but Microsoft announced on April 4 a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines via its work with Ampere Computing. Ampere is a startup that makes server chips. Ampere ...

Back when Microsoft first launched Azure’s virtual machines, there were only a handful of default server sizes you could use. The question you had to ask yourself then was a simple one: Is there a ...

A platform engineer I worked with once burned an entire weekend restoring a 2 TB Azure VM. All he needed was one table from one database that a bad migration had wiped. The backup couldn’t hand him ...