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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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Azure Virtual Machines for SQL Server Usage

SQL Performance

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. One important choice you will still have to make is what type and size of Azure virtual machine you want to use for your existing SQL Server workload.

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What is hyperconverged infrastructure? Realizing the benefits of HCI

Dynatrace

More organizations are adopting a hybrid IT environment, with data center and virtualized components. Therefore, they need an environment that offers scalable computing, storage, and networking. Instead of treating storage, server, compute, and network functions as separate entities, HCI virtualizes these resources.

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AMD EPYC Processors in Azure Virtual Machines

SQL Performance

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. Memory (GiB).

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Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage

The Morning Paper

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. have altered the many assumptions that guided the design and optimization of the Snowflake system. From shared-nothing to disaggregation.

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Azure SQL Managed Instance Performance Considerations

SQL Performance

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance became generally available in late 2018. The General Purpose tier is designed for applications with typical performance and I/O latency requirements and provides built-in HA. The Business Critical tier is designed for applications that require low I/O latency and higher HA requirements.

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What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

Dynatrace

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions. How does function as a service work?