Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

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I'd like to contribute a production-ready chat API sample using Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, and Agent Framework. This complements the existing ChatKit sample by providing a backend microservice ...

Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and ...

Microsoft used Ignite 2025 to push Azure Cosmos DB further into AI search and agentic workflows, highlighting new capabilities aimed at developers building retrieval-heavy applications and multi-agent ...

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 ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

Veeam described how it rearchitected its data platform to move beyond traditional backup and recovery, using Azure Cosmos DB as the foundation for an AI-powered semantic search system. In a ...

Big changes to the license used by the popular open source key/value store Redis prompted a fork, with the launch of Valkey. In the time since that fork in March 2024, the two projects have diverged.

Brad Smith, Vice Chair & President, shared the below communication with Microsoft employees this morning. I want to let you know that Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit ...

Hi team/ maintainers, I love the work you're doing on Data API Builder. We’ve adopted it in different areas because it gives us a unified, secure, and standards-based API layer on top of multiple data ...