And Nehme is gung-ho, asserting that developers should use Cosmos DB for any new Azure-based application. That's a bold statement, especially for a former member of the SQL Server team who worked on ...

Microsoft says its new Azure cloud database is all types of databases in one. Here's why that might be a problem Microsoft apparently missed database godfather Michael Stonebraker’s memo. In 2005 ...

Developers will have an easier time scaling their applications to meet global needs with a database product Microsoft updated on Wednesday. Called Cosmos DB, the service lets developers store data ...

Microsoft has warned thousands of Azure customers that a now-fixed critical vulnerability found in Cosmos DB allowed any user to remotely take over other users' databases by giving them full admin ...

“We want this to be the database of the future and to last for many decades to come,” Microsoft Technical Fellow Dharma Shukla told me when we talked about Cosmos DB, the new globally distributed ...

Microsoft issued guidance on securing Azure accounts that may be impacted by a recently addressed Cosmos DB critical vulnerability, giving attackers full admin rights to users' data without ...

Microsoft’s Cosmos DB database can now be used at the center of an event-driven app built with serverless technologies. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft’s strategy for helping its customers use one of the ...

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Cybersecurity company Wiz says the vulnerability has potentially existed for ‘at least several months, possibly years,’ and that ‘if your organization uses Azure Cosmos DB, then you are likely ...

Microsoft is introducing a new globally distributed database, called Azure Cosmos DB, at Day 1 of its Build 2017 developer conference in Seattle. Azure Cosmos DB is a superset of Microsoft's existing ...

Researchers at a cybersecurity firm headquartered in Israel say they recently alerted Microsoft to a startling vulnerability in its Azure Cosmos DB database service. Multiple flaws could allow an ...

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB consumers are allegedly at risk of severe security breaches after the giant tech firm confirmed a new security vulnerability. The giant tech developer explained that the new ...