Update and protect applications with unmatched security and business continuity

One of the reasons why Microsoft Windows Server & SQL Server are popular among businesses is because of their proven security and compliance capabilities. Azure not only improves performance, but also provides multiple layers of security, like the secure foundation of its physical data centers, operational best practices, and engineering processes that meet industry standard guidelines. Sign up to say connected, we’ll help you learn more about migrating to Microsoft Windows SQL Server on Azure.

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Dairy company centralizes its data in Azure, gains flexibility and productivity

Swedish company Arla Foods is the fifth-largest dairy company in the world. In its pursuit of modern digital transformation, Arla’s Senior Manager developed a leadership team focused on centralizing data across the company, making data more accessible and analytics easier to understand. The team developed an architecture on Azure that would create one centralized location for data anywhere in the company for ingestion and consumption—a real benefit for reporting in Power BI.

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5 leading trends of database innovation: Cloud native, self-driving, and more

The pandemic forced the acceleration of the digitalization trend. As businesses and economies make the digital transformation, data and the ability to gain insights are at the heart of every successful organization. Get briefed on the 5 top updates leaders are interested in surrounding database innovation—from online and batch workload integration (or HTAP) to newer multi-model advances in technology such as AI, IoT, and beyond.

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The Total Economic Impact™ Of Migration To Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Databases

According to a February 2020 Research Overview by Forrester Research, the infrastructure-as-code movement has emerged as the new management model. The ability to programmatically create and manage infrastructure alters the whole game of infrastructure. It also changes the roles of the people involved—most notably the admins. Customers who maintain Software Assurance can use the Azure Hybrid Benefit to decrease their usage costs. They can also provision databases quickly for faster time-to-market and manage them more efficiently. With many time-consuming manual tasks automated or eliminated, database administrators (DBAs) and IT staff members see their roles transformed, and they have more time to apply to higher business-value initiatives. Sign up to say connected—we’ll help you accelerate innovation with Azure SQL services.

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Modernize and scale with flexibility by migrating server apps to Azure

Microsoft Windows Server & SQL Server is easier to install and configure than other database management software. It doesn't require any special tools, and all updates are automatic. Migrating server apps to Azure enables scaling with flexibility, keeping databases secure (especially if using a Microsoft SQL Server database administration service). With Microsoft Windows Server & SQL Server, there's no need for another data storage from the same database. Data management is quick and easy, with minimal troubleshooting and maintenance. Sign up to say connected. We’ll help you learn more about using Microsoft Windows Server & SQL Server on Azure.

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Database-as-a-service: a vote for data democracy

The technology industry has gone to great lengths to provide abstraction layers for every user to store, analyze, access, and retrieve data residing in cloud-based data repositories inside dedicated datacenters. Data democracy challenges the notion that every application requires its own database. It may make sense for data to be stored in silos, but they need to appear as one coherent source of information—and this is where cloud-based Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) comes into place.

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Digital health provider creates a scalable platform with Azure

Rx.Health created a collection of digital health solutions that make care navigation, patient monitoring, and engagement faster and more automated than ever before—on a much greater scale. Starting with Microsoft FastTrack for Azure, it mapped out a scalable cloud plan that included an Azure Data Lake for AI modeling and a combination of Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB to track remote patient monitoring and patient engagement data across disparate sources. Now it’s realizing its goal of cost-effectively bringing more help to more people with Azure.

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Infrastructure migration best practices

Whether you are migrating or extending your Windows Server and SQL Server infrastructure to the cloud, a lift-and-shift approach can help simplify the process by moving your applications quickly without requiring major changes to their configuration. Learn about Microsoft Azure migration and what to expect from each of the three phases.

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