Happy New Year everybody! The year 2010 was an exciting one for developers, customers, and Microsoft as we all made the dive into the cloud with SQL Azure and the Windows Azure platform. The year 2011 is already shaping up to be even more exciting with what the industry is doing with cloud data...

Hi! For those who I haven’t met yet, I’m Patric McElroy and I’m the GPM for the SDS team. I’ve been with the team since last summer and it has been an amazing ride so far – lots of progress, lots of learning and lots of cool stuff ahead of us. For most of my career at Microsoft, I’ve worked in the enterprise...

Today we announced the details of our plans to accelerate the delivery of core relational database features as part of SDS. There has been quite a bit of buzz about SDS over the past couple weeks and it is great to be able to share the details more broadly. If we flash back about a year ago to Mix...

Today at PDC, Ray Ozzie announced our all up cloud services platform. It was a great day for a whole bunch of us who have worked on the database part of the platform for the past 2 years. We announced our cloud compute, storage and management service called Windows Azure. These are the essential services...