Before this general availability release, the SQL Server AlwaysOn availability group technology had restrictions on replica support for Windows Azure VMs, according to the SQL Server team.

Rather, it is a set of availability features whose most salient components are the Failover Cluster Instances feature and the Availability Groups feature. For reasons that are unclear to me, Microsoft ...

Because SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups only supports up to 10 Availability Groups and 100 databases per Availability Group (provided the hardware will support that many replication pairs ...

As part of general availability, Azure now supports “the complete SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups technology stack with Windows Azure Virtual Machines – including enabling support for ...

SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups and Failover Cluster Instances deployed in Azure have specific requirements that will be discussed in detail and further illustrated through live ...

According to Microsoft, this update means its cloud supports "the complete SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups technology stack with Windows Azure Virtual Machines — including enabling ...

Google also announced support for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups to shore up its enterprise high-availability and disaster-recovery story.

AlwaysOn availability groups is a SQL Server 2012 technology that allows groups of databases to be failed over to other SQL Server installations. It can enable disaster recovery scenarios while also ...

Titled, "Understanding Windows Azure High Availability options for SQL Server," Dave's session is scheduled for Friday, Oct 30, 3:30 PM. Windows Azure provides an excellent IaaS platform for deploying ...