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 ...

Image courtesy of Shutterstock SQL Server 2012/2014 delivers compelling new capabilities that make an upgrade worthwhile. Many IT professionals agree that the AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG) feature ...

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

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 ...

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 ...