DENVER, June 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- HOSTING, the industry's leading managed cloud provider, was recognized last week with the Most Innovative SQL Offering at the 2016 Microsoft Cloud and Hosting Summit in Bellevue, Washington. The award is granted annually to the Microsoft partner that is breaking bounds with its unique and transformative SQL Server offers. Microsoft in particular noted that HOSTING leverages stretch database to allow customers to seamlessly expand their databases into the Azure Cloud without application changes.

"This award recognizes the focus HOSTING has on transforming products to create new opportunities for our customers," said Tricia Pattee, HOSTING Director of Managed Services. "We are honored to have our solution selected by Microsoft for this prestigious award and look forward to continued strong partnership and service innovation."

"HOSTING continues to deliver flexible solutions that combine Microsoft technologies with its unique expertise and services," said Aziz Benmalek, vice president, Worldwide Hosting and Managed Service Providers, Microsoft Corp. "We congratulate HOSTING on this achievement and for the outstanding value it continues to provide for our mutual customers."

HOSTING offers Microsoft SQL Server Database Management for high availability to ensure that business-critical applications remain up, running and completely secure if an outage occurs at a primary production location.

Bypassing the need for a full-time database administrator (DBA), HOSTING collaboratively architects the ideal Microsoft SQL Server database structure based on an organization's specific needs. Then, HOSTING provides the expertise needed to implement and support the highly available MSSQL infrastructure — all without adding extra resources or workload.

About HOSTING

HOSTING delivers secure and compliant managed services on the industry's leading cloud platforms to empower enterprises to increase revenue, reduce costs and manage risk. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, HOSTING owns and operates six data centers under an ITIL-based control environment validated for compliance against HIPAA, PCI DSS and SOC (formerly SAS 70) frameworks. For more information, visit HOSTING.com.

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