Today’s Expo
FREE SSWUG Expo – Maximizing SQL Server Uptime – Available Today 9am Pacific. Don’t worry you didn’t miss it…Catch the expo on demand
SQL Server uptime is a key component of managing your SQL Server(s). Knowing what’s important, what options you have for building out solutions to help when things go wrong, is at the core of the responsibilities for those working with databases. This expo will feature information moving to SQL Server 2008 to get you started. You’ll learn about new features and important things that you’ll want to know about as you work with SQL Server 2008. We’ll also have segments on Transactional Replication for High Availability, Database Mirroring and even log shipping basics. Join us to learn about the key elements to making sure your systems are able to provide excellent uptime options for your business, clients and end-users. Sign up now! <- click to register…
DB In the Cloud
You don’t have time to put together all the infrastructure for disaster recovery, or the redundancy for al the different kinds of failover that can happen. Or you don’t have the technical resources to keep your database afloat? Did you consider Cloud computing?
There are a lot of vendors getting into this space. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM, Dell, HP, CDW to name just a few. Each of these companies have different versions of the cloud with their own branding and options.
The thing in common is that you outsource your stuff, and they keep the lights on. Does the server room get flooded? With these kinds of services, it could happen and you wouldn’t even know. I’m sure different levels of service will be priced accordingly. But it may be cheaper than doing it yourself. Economy of scale.
So who is doing it? How does your outsourcing work with regulations such as HIPAA, SOX, PCI, SAS70, etc? What levels of service do you find are cost effective? Would you recommend it to other businesses? What are the questions a business should ask when looking into Cloud Services from your perspective and experience?
As always, drop a note to btaylor@sswug.org. I’ll be glad to post your responses.
Cheers,
Ben
Featured Article(s)
Next Generation Data Warehousing in SQL Server 2008 (Part 2 of 2)
In this part about next generation warehousing we will cover the improvements to recourse management. We will discuss how to make queries easier to write. We will demonstrate the feature and show how to do the same thing without losing your work. Finally we will discuss change data capture and the new design of sparse cube spaces.