Microsoft SQL Server databases power many applications that are the lifeblood of businesses in today’s data-driven world. Whether your servers are on-premises or hosted in Azure, your company relies on the availability of your SQL Server instances to power your applications. However, poorly performing databases can have a negative impact on user experience and revenue generation and slow productivity throughout your business.

A significant shift has occurred in the data storage landscape over the last 10 years. Legacy environments saw data centers full of physical servers on racks, all taking up space in climate-controlled rooms with teams of database administrators overseeing operations 24x7. Cloud database management, by contrast, is at the heart of next-generation digital infrastructure. Businesses are processing workloads as never before and cloud database management is what allows them to do this while scaling down maintenance and increasing business agility.