On Infoworld, Eric Lai writes: "Microsoft adds access controls for SQL Azure online
database"
Microsoft is creating technology to give businesses
more fine-grained control over access to data stored in the company's upcoming
SQL Azure database cloud service, a senior engineer said today. Code-named
Vidalia, the technology will provide "trustworthy data collaboration for
highly sensitive business data across disparate trust domains," said
Microsoft technical fellow Dave Campbell in a talk at Microsoft's Professional
Developers Conference 2009 (PDC09) in Los Angeles.
Translation: Companies will be able to define and
enforce policies controlling who can see what data at a very detailed level.
That will be through what Campbell called a
"capability generation center" that will protect data inside the
database (at rest) and when it's moving through the network (in motion).
Other features are coming to SQL Azure, which will go
into production when Windows Azure does on January 1.
In the first half of next year, it will bring a
"database clone" feature for administrators, said Tony Petrossian,
principal program manager for SQL Azure.
By the second half, Microsoft plans to release
continuous backup of SQL Azure databases. Users will be able to restore their
databases to any point in time, he said.
Microsoft is also working on making it easier for users
to grow and shrink their databases, so that they are not constricted in size or
overpay for storage they don't need, Petrossian said.
Other related features include the ability to
dynamically split or merge databases, and build tools to manage large groups of
schemas across databases, he said, as well as query multiple databases at a
time.
These improvements are aimed at both enterprise
department users, as well as software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based resellers of SQL Azure, he said.
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