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Manage Space and Maximize Your Hardware Resources with Capacity Manager
Todays SQL Server environments are growing faster and are more essential to your organization than ever before. But tight IT budgets mean you’ve got to use your resources to manage your environment as efficiently as possible. What if you had a powerful tool for effectively controlling disk space, growth rates and database performance? Attend this webcast to explore how to do exactly that, so you can maximize investments in hardware resources as well as ensure the success of consolidation projects.
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Additional Clarity on Cloud SQL Server
I wrote earlier about Microsoft’s announcements for SQL Server in the cloud, where you’ll be able to set up a SQL Server installation with some data local, some "out there" and managed for you. MIcrosoft was also talking about the integration of the cloud-based solution pieces with the local systems at your company. Specifically, there were talks about connectors between Active Directory portions local to your company and security and profiles and such in the cloud.
Microsoft has also been talking and announcing that SQL Server 2010 will feature "management-studio-esque" features that will help you manage and deploy your database applications, configurations and other management work across servers in your organization and out into the managed cloud. Essentially, the local SQL Servers won’t look different, nor operate or be managed differently, from your local systems.
In my opinion, these tools are the tools that will make the cloud initiatives work. If you really, truly don’t have to care where something is located functionally, you’ll be able to focus on where the best support for specific portions of your applications can be provided. I think there will be cases where the cloud makes sense, while at other times, the local servers within your facility (or at least within your network) will make more sense for any number of reasons.
By building tools that hide the complexities of "here or there" admin, it’ll make it possible to truly migrate and get going with a SQL Server in the cloud.
I assume(!) that developer tools and interface tools (something akin to DNS aliases) are also forthcoming to make the application interaction with these cloud-based solutions transparent as well. This, working correctly, will be the other piece to the puzzle. If the cloud initiatives can successfully make it so your applications and administration tools and environments don’t care about the location of these solutions, and they work in any combination of environment solution, we’ll be home free.
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