NEWS
In a move to capture a piece of the cloud computing pie, Microsoft announced its upcoming Azure Services Platform back in October last year. Today it unleashed a free trial of SQL Azure Database, the software giant's cloud-based relational database.
Ray Ozzie introduces Windows Azure at Microsoft's PDC last October (photo credit: TechFlash Todd via Flickr under the following Creative Commons licence)
SQL Azure Database is a key part of the Azure Services Platform and sets out to rival Amazon's SimpleDB.
The free trial will last until November, at which point the full service will be rolled out. ZDNet UK has the full story on the SQL Azure Database preview.
