Azure SQL infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service options (source: Sept. 30, 2020 Azure blog). The diagram also shows rationales for when to use Azure Arc.

Azure Arc is Microsoft’s hybrid and multi-cloud platform that seamlessly extends the capabilities of Azure public cloud to on-prem data centers, edge locations, and any public cloud.

At first glance, a new product billed as part of the Azure Man­agement platform might not seem interesting or relevant for data management professions. But as you will see, if your organiza­tion is ...

Beginning July 30, customers will gain access to the general-purpose tier of Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance, which Microsoft says will allow them to optimize database performance, deploy ...

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that Azure Arc, its service for managing cloud resources anywhere, including competing clouds like AWS and GCP and platforms like Red ...

More Arc goodies In concert with Arc-enabled Azure SQL's GA, Microsoft is announcing it is working with a broad network of managed service providers (MSPs) and solution integrators (SIs) to help ...