There’s a compelling rationale for SQL Server not being the easiest pick for Kubernetes containerization initiatives. SQL Server environments are often characterized as formidable entities, known for their substantial scale and tendency to consume a significant portion of budget resources. Furthermore, SQL Server environments: Containers offer substantial potential for enhancing SQL Server’s agility, flexibility, and […]
A SQL Server Solution That Developers Should Know
Microsoft SQL Server is a critical database server for software developers, helping to store and retrieve data that other software applications request. That’s why SQL Server developers are in such high demand – and command average salaries close to six figures. Yet while SQL Server remains a go-to relational database management system, it has some significant […]
Considerations for Ensuring High Availability of Applications and Data
Click to learn more about author Dave Bermingham. When you think about how best to ensure the high availability (HA) of your applications and data, you need to think about more than just the speed with which you can failover to a standby system if your database suddenly fails. Yes, you should be prepared for full failover […]
On-Premises/Cloud Hybrid for SQL Server Data Availability
Click to learn more about author Dave Bermingham. Today, organizations are buying cloud infrastructure services rather than on-premises hardware and software. For those companies running mission-critical SQL server environments, cloud vendors promise geographically distributed cloud data centers that make it easy to configure SQL server instances for high availability (HA) and/or disaster recovery (DR). This […]
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Will Deliver Cost-Savings Through Greater Cloud Efficiencies
Click to learn more about author Frank Jablonski. The challenge when implementing high availability (HA) in the cloud is the high cost. HA requires provisioning redundant resources to ensure being able to maintain desired performance levels during any failure. The resources in a standby instance are often configured to match the peak load of the […]
Smart Availability Enhances Enterprise Architecture Success
Smart Availability enables a workload to always be run from the best execution environment. Smart Availability uses the central idea of high availability (dedicated resources between systems preventing downtime) and develops it into the maximizing of a competitive advantage. Smart Availability allows clients and staff to shift workloads between servers, operating systems, and virtual and […]
Smart Data Governance: Ensuring Regulatory Compliance with Smart Availability
Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Traditionally, high availability (HA) concerns revolved around performance. HA offered various redundancy and failover options to ensure business continuity in the event of workload spikes, planned maintenance, and unplanned downtime. Today, HA methods have been superseded by Smart Availability’s intelligent workload routing automation, in which data and […]
Redoubling Analytic Value with Smart Availability
Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. The underlying value derived from data-driven processes has become increasingly paired with Analytics. Once regarded as a desirable supplement to intuitive decision-making, Analytics has emerged as the focus of mission critical applications across industries for any number of use cases. Yet as the reasons for applying Analytics […]
The Evolution of Smart Availability
Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Regardless of computing environment, workload, or OS, availability is an essential part of operational success. Outages, system or application failures, and unplanned downtime are simply not acceptable for today’s pace of business in which even 10 minutes of inoperability translates to substantial data loss. What organizations are […]
Platform9 Brings High Availability to OpenStack for Production Workloads
by Angela Guess A new press release out of the company reports, “Platform9, the company making cloud infrastructure easy, today released its High Availability capability for OpenStack users, supporting both traditional and cloud-native workloads… ‘High Availability is fundamental to enterprise customers looking to run production workloads on OpenStack. Given the massive demand we’ve seen from […]