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The Big 3 Hyperscalers are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As cloud computing has grown in popularity, they have each in turn discovered that the average potential customer really isn’t prepared for the massive mind shift needed to achieve a level of mastery comparable to their self-hosted computing environments.

In an era of constant technological flux, many IT teams find themselves running just to stand still. New platforms, services, and deployment models promise agility, but for organizations with deep investments in traditional infrastructure, adapting to this pace of change is anything but simple. The discussion around cloud-native transformation just keeps on growing.

In today’s complex digital landscape, incorporating security from the ground up is not merely a best practice—it is essential. The recent Azure and CrowdStrike outage underscores the importance of integrating…

Over the past several years, I’ve helped numerous customers migrate SQL Server workloads to Azure SQL, including Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure SQL Virtual Machines. In this article, I’ll explain some…

As we shift enterprise computing to the cloud, the need for database migration increases—but with this comes the inherent challenges of migration and the need to plan. Moving to the…

I was really stoked to deliver a session at Microsoft Ignite with my long-time friend and fellow Head Geek™, Tom LaRock, on the topic of migrating an on-premises SQL Server…

The relationship IT professionals have with upgrades can sometimes only be described as “fraught.” Reasons range from the cost in terms of time and lost opportunity to “nothing in that…

The first step in improving system monitoring and visibility is getting data flowing sooner rather than later. For systems engineers managing diverse resources, it can be easier said than done.…

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We’ve all heard it before. “The cloud is the future!” “We need to move to the cloud!” “The on-premises data center is dead.” If you believe the analysts and marketing…