SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Migrating an on-premises SQL Server instance to an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) is a common method to migrate to Azure. You'll see the types referenced as Family in the Azure Portal when sizing a VM. Microsoft has helped simplify things by creating multiple types of virtual machines. VM Image Options.

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Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance became generally available in late 2018. Organizations are taking advantage of having managed backups, lots of built-in security features, an uptime SLA of 99.99%, and an always up-to-date environment where they are no longer responsible for patching SQL Server or the operating system. GB per vCore.

Azure 63

Azure Performance Storage Latency 63

DZone

APRIL 26, 2019

In the era of Digital Transformation (DX) the IT landscape has expanded to environments that rely extensively on virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), and cloud computing. As a result, the number of servers and the quantity of traffic have been exploding exponentially.

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Azure Traffic Virtualization Performance 145

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Most Kubernetes clusters in the cloud (73%) are built on top of managed distributions from the hyperscalers like AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines.

Open Source 340

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 340

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. Open source CI/CD pipeline tool with extensible server automation for distributed builds and scaling.

DevOps 187

DevOps Engineering Testing Open Source 187

Scalegrid

JUNE 6, 2019

While all other DBaaS platforms require you to host through their service, ScaleGrid encourages users to host in the safety of their own accounts so they can leverage advanced security features like AWS Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) to protect their data from the internet, and Security Groups to lock down access to their servers.

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AWS Cloud Open Source Virtualization 191

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Part of its popularity owes to its availability as a managed service through the major cloud providers, such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service , Google Kubernetes Engine , and Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service. Likewise, Kubernetes is both an enterprise platform and managed services with Red Hat OpenShift.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 182

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure service. Redis Cloud Gets Easier with Fully Managed Hosting on Microsoft Azure Click To Tweet. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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Azure Cloud Open Source Virtualization 37

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

Organizations hit this cloud operations wall when replacing static virtual machines with dynamic container orchestration and expanding to multicloud environments. The agency executed one of the largest email migrations from on-premises Exchange servers to Microsoft Office 365 — moving almost 480,000 mailboxes to the cloud.

Cloud 174

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 174

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. After applying the first manifests (which are likely copied and pasted from a how-to tutorial ), a web server is up and running within minutes.

Virtualization 160

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 160

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Infrastructure Excellence ScaleGrid’s infrastructure is designed to facilitate hosting in your cloud account and provides cost-saving options with AWS or Azure Reserved Instances or GCP. Reducing Costs with Intelligent Automation Costs in cloud computing can be significantly reduced by automation, a key factor affecting cloud computing.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

High Scalability

OCTOBER 3, 2019

ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure service. “Cloud reliability has never been so important,” says Dharshan Rangegowda, Founder and CEO of ScaleGrid.

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Azure Cloud Open Source Cache 23

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

DZone

JANUARY 16, 2023

BCDR Approach Benefits From Azure Recovery Services Service for site recovery: By keeping business applications and workloads operational during disruptions, Site Recovery contributes to business continuity. Workloads running on physical and virtual machines (VMs) are replicated by site recovery to a backup site.

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Azure Virtualization Strategy Servers 233

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

What is Azure Functions? Similar to AWS Lambda , Azure Functions is a serverless compute service by Microsoft that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions (triggers), such as an order arriving on an IoT system, or a specific queue receiving a new message. The growth of Azure cloud computing.

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Azure Serverless IoT Lambda 136

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One initial, easy step to moving your SQL Server on-premises workloads to the cloud is using Azure VMs to run your SQL Server workloads in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) scenario. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

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Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. While Microsoft Azure does offer a managed solution, Azure Database, the solution has some major limitations you should know about before migrating your MySQL deployments. The Best Way to Host MySQL on Azure Cloud Click To Tweet.

Azure 219

Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Whereas many open source software offerings — like the community version of MySQL — use the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), MongoDB has been under the GNU Affero General Public License ( AGPL ) and more recently under the Server Side Public License ( SSPL ), introduced by MongoDB itself. Is MongoDB free to use?

Open Source 83

Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. After the file is uploaded to a server on step 1, the file must be available to whichever server handles the request for steps 2 and 3, which may or may not be the same one for step 1. Leonardo Losoviz.

AWS 44

AWS Servers Storage Cloud 44

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

20+ years ago when I joined Microsoft I was handed a diskette (maybe it was two), and was told “Here is SQL Server. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 There was a GUI as part of setup but within just a few clicks, SQL Server was installed and ready for use. So now there are more choices to make when installing SQL Server.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

As organizations adopt microservices architecture with cloud-native technologies such as Microsoft Azure , many quickly notice an increase in operational complexity. To guide organizations through their cloud migrations, Microsoft developed the Azure Well-Architected Framework. What is the Azure Well-Architected Framework?

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Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 184

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

This slowdown may be mitigated in Windows 11 but in the latest Windows Server editions – where it matters most – this bug is alive and well. I’d been testing on a virtual machine in a data center that I had access to, purely because this machine has an internet connection that runs at over 2 Gbps. Server versions should be fine….

Cache 105

Cache Energy Google Processing 105

Dynatrace

APRIL 1, 2021

Versatile, feature-rich cloud computing environments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP have been a game-changer. Cloud computing environments like AWS, Azure, and GCP offer a wide array of computing capabilities and capacity. Without the overhead of establishing and maintaining on-premises servers, these systems save resources.

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Azure AWS DevOps Cloud 170

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Well, to start, serverless, or serverless computing , doesn’t really mean there aren’t servers involved, because there are, rather it refers to the fact that the responsibility of having to manage, scale, provision, maintain, etc., Applications that are running continuously on a dedicated server aren’t as impacted by latency issues.

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Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

I once had a client who started out with a very noncomplex server infrastructure. The hosting provider had given them ownership of an internal IP subnet, and so they started out with two load-balanced public web servers: X.X.X.100 It's easy enough to upgrade load-balanced web servers. It's not so easy with a junk drawer server.

Wireless 52

Wireless DevOps Infrastructure Network 52

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. The Back Story.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

Serverless 242

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 242

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

If a cyber network agent has observed an unusual pattern of failed login attempts, it needs to alert downstream network nodes (servers and routers) to block the kill chain in a potential attack. A New Approach: Real-Time Device Tracking.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. Azure Lsv2 Details.

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Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

ScaleOut Software

JULY 14, 2021

The Microsoft Azure IoT ecosystem offers a rich set of capabilities for processing IoT telemetry, from its arrival in the cloud through its storage in databases and data lakes. Acting as a switchboard for incoming and outgoing messages, Azure IoT Hub forms the core of these capabilities.

IoT 52

IoT Azure Analytics Serverless 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Instead, enterprises manage individual containers on virtual machines (VMs). Managed orchestration uses solutions such as Kubernetes or Azure Service Fabric to provide greater container control and customization. IaaS provides direct access to compute resources such as servers, storage, and networks. Managed orchestration.

Serverless 216

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 216

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

More organizations are adopting a hybrid IT environment, with data center and virtualized components. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is an IT architecture that combines servers, storage, and networking functions into a unified, software-centric platform to streamline resource management. What is hyperconverged infrastructure?

Infrastructure 197

Infrastructure Storage Virtualization Network 197

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's database-as-a-service offering that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different.

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Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While you may assume a great majority of the cloud database deployments are run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, small to medium-sized businesses in particular are gravitating towards the developer-friendly cloud provider, DigitalOcean , for their hosting for MongoDB® needs. DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB. DigitalOcean Droplets.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Various forms can take shape when discussing workloads within the realm of cloud computing environments – examples include order management databases, collaboration tools, videoconferencing systems, virtual desktops, and disaster recovery mechanisms. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130