The Cloud OS vision is not purely focused on delivering an infrastructure platform. Part of the vision is SQL Server 2014. As this book is about infrastructure, I will not go into much detail on SQL Server.

SQL Server 2014 is enabled for use in a hybrid scenario. It means that SQL Server data can be made highly available by using Microsoft Azure as a secondary location to store SQL Server data.

SQL Servers allows us to export a database (data and scheme) and import it into Microsoft Azure in a few simple steps.