When does it make sense to move to the cloud?
Moving to the cloud isn’t for everyone. When the cloud providers first launched their cloud platforms their approach, and marketing message, was for the most part that everything should be running in the cloud. And they were pushing that message hard. Today however we have a much friendlier, cuddlier cloud and the cloud providers understand…
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Obscurity is not Security
We’ve all heard the argument that using a different TCP port number for SQL, other than 1433, is more secure. Here’s the truth, it isn’t. Andy said it best here in a conversation on Twitter that happened in the #sqlhelp hash tag. If you think that hiding your SQL Servers on a different TCP port…
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Why do I fly all over the world giving presentations?
I travel, a lot. A lot of my travel is to go speak at events somewhere in the world. I’ve had the privilege of being able to travel to 4 continents and 12 countries (that I can think of) giving presentations on Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure. Why do I do it? To give…
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Just because you are in the cloud, doesn’t mean you can skip those DR plans
You moved your critical infrastructure to the cloud. You’re now relying on the cloud for 100% of your customer facing systems. Did the sales person from your cloud provider tell you that you didn’t need DR any more because you are relying on their rock solid infrastructure? Did you believe them? I hope you didn’t…
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