Shireesh Thota articles

Shireesh Thota

Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure Data

Shireesh leads product management, engineering, and cloud operations for Azure Databases. The products in his team’s portfolio include Azure SQL Database (on-prem, Hybrid, and Cloud), Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, and Azure MySQL. Shireesh has 15+ years of experience on large-scale, big data, scale-out, relational, and schema-agnostic distributed systems across SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, and PostgreSQL/Citus.

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Published March 18, 2026

6 min read

Advancing agentic AI with Microsoft databases across a unified data estate

Built on a consistent Microsoft SQL foundation from on premises to the cloud, Azure SQL brings AI capabilities directly into your database experience.

AI
Events

Published November 4, 2025

1 min read

Announcing SQLCon 2026: Better Together with FabCon!

We’re thrilled to unveil SQLCon 2026, the premier Microsoft SQL Community Conference, co-located with the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference from March 16–20, 2026.

Published January 27, 2025

4 min read

Mirroring operational data for the AI era with Striim and Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft and Striim have partnered to offer a new mirroring solution to transform how businesses manage, integrate, and analyze their data.