Unlocking innovative at-home patient care solutions with Azure

By Dustin Ward

This post was co-authored by Stuart Bailey, Product Director, Capita Healthcare Decisions This blog is part of a series in collaboration with our partners and customers leveraging the newly announced Azure Health Data Services. Azure Health Data Services, a platform as a service (PaaS) offering designed exclusively to support Protected Health Information (PHI) in the…

Find out why your SQL Server data belongs on Azure

By Dustin Ward

The global events of the last couple of years have introduced significant changes to how companies operate and the way we work, accelerating digital transformation for many as they seek the additional flexibility, scale, and cost savings of the cloud. More companies are choosing Azure SQL for their SQL Server workloads and it’s easy to…

Introducing the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform

By Dustin Ward

We are moving to a world where every application needs to be intelligent and adaptive to real-time model learning. As businesses build modern data capabilities, they must make decisions at the speed of human thought. Developers are challenged by this, given the huge silos that exist between databases and analytic products, and the complexity of a…

Optimize your cloud investment with Azure Reservations

By Dustin Ward

Continuous cost optimization can take place at all stages of an Azure workload’s lifecycle, but your Azure subscription provides a very effective benefit to further optimize your investment when you are ready to deploy that workload. For cloud workloads with consistent resource usage, you can buy reserved instances at a significant discount and reduce your…

Stay on top of database threats with Microsoft Defender for Azure Cosmos DB

By Dustin Ward

Databases are constantly evolving to handle new use cases, incorporate more intelligence, and store more data, giving developers and organizations a wide range of database types to meet their varying needs. Because aspects including architecture, capabilities, configuration options, and authentication methods are unique to each database type, so are the security threats—requiring custom security measures…