“Free” is a term rarely associated with Microsoft offerings, especially at the server end of the spectrum. Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, Hyper-V — IT admins know functionality ...

Participants will get a free Microsoft SQL Server 2008 trial account, accessible online. The account will include a "Hyper-V image, reporting and analysis services, integration services, and full ...

Microsoft's pitch, unsurprisingly, is users with Software Assurance can save money by using the Azure Hybrid benefit which use of existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses on Azure Dedicated ...

Amazon takes its RDS out of beta, offers Oracle and SQL Server hosting To fend off Google's Cloud SQL, RDS adds multi-zone replication, 99.95% uptime.