A week after Microsoft Fabric's worldwide network-access issue, customers still have little information about what caused the outage or how Microsoft plans to prevent a repeat.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 05/26/2026
As SQL Server 2016 approaches end of support in July 2026, a look back at its groundbreaking innovations reveals how it reshaped Microsoft's data platform and why it's time to move forward.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 05/12/2026
Microsoft’s new Azure database savings plans promise more flexible, cross-service cost reductions than traditional reservations, giving IT teams another lever to manage rising cloud database spend while preserving deployment options across regions and platforms.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 04/10/2026
Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in platform packaging.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 04/07/2026
As geopolitical tensions escalate and nation-state cyberattacks increase, organizations must adopt an "assume breach" mindset and strengthen disaster recovery planning -- including preparing for physical threats to cloud infrastructure.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 03/16/2026
A closer look at AI-driven capital spending, GPU depreciation and shrinking margins helps explain why massive hyperscaler investments -- and Microsoft’s AI disclosures -- rattled tech stocks and raised new questions about the economics of artificial intelligence.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 02/09/2026
A recent Exchange Online disruption tied to Microsoft network changes underscores how deeply businesses still rely on email -- and how few practical options organizations have to protect critical workflows when cloud services fail.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 01/28/2026
Introduced at Ignite late last year, Azure HorizonDB is a new PostgreSQL service designed for higher performance and scalability, using disaggregated storage, zone-redundant architecture and a Rust-based engine to target large, cloud-native workloads.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 01/08/2026
As companies pour unprecedented money into AI, soaring compute costs, limited model differentiation and an unsustainable business model are raising questions about whether the industry's massive bets can ever deliver real returns.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 12/10/2025
Amid the AI-heavy headlines at Microsoft's annual conference, several behind-the-scenes updates landed that could have a major impact on how IT teams build, run and scale core infrastructure in Azure.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 11/21/2025
Microsoft used its annual conference to roll out sweeping updates across Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Fabric, PostgreSQL and SQL Server tooling, signaling broad investments in performance, scalability and unified data governance beyond its flagship SQL Server 2025 release.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 11/18/2025
With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 11/18/2025