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Interesting Article about SQL Azure
Noticed this great piece from SQL Magazine’s site talking about SQL Azure. (read it here) I think it outlines the hesitations and concerns of many people, including those I’ve talked with, about using SQL Azure. It is odd, too, that Azure seems to be pointed at developers in so many areas at this point. I get that you have to have the applications in place in order to need the platform in general, but still.
I thought this was especially interesting (the article above) given the load of articles earlier this week talking about Azure (or specifically SQL Server in the cloud) was a clear direction for the industry for future applications and systems.
If you add it all up, I think you’re faced with FUD. I think there is some maturation of tools that we need, but I think too that we need to continue to see signfiicant applications on the platforms that include services in the cloud. I’d *really* like to see an application fail and how it’s recovered, how things are handled on a restore (if they’re handled; or do things just never go down…??) I don’t buy that things don’t need to be backed up. I just think that application data is too important to assume we have things knocked (things like uptime and failover) in this type of environment and that there won’t ever be any risk to data. I could be wrong, but as many others have said, it makes me nervous and gives me pause.
I really liked the list of items you can present when the boss comes looking to move SQL Server to the cloud. It’s in the article referenced above, and it’s a good list of things that we do indeed need to address before things move in a big way to the cloud. I have to say though, unless this just flops outright, I think these things will get addressed and we’ll get access to the things needed.
In many of the items I’m seeing out there in talking about the cloud, I see parallels with virtual servers. How do you troubleshoot other processes you can’t see? How do you recover a system with so many instances? What happens when you’re looking to shut down a process, etc. There are a lot of questions to get answered. If it’s going to be real, they’ll be answered. Then things will get really interesting.
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