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.
